From: "Jürgen Groß" <jgross@suse.com>
To: Paul Durrant <pdurrant@amazon.com>,
linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Cc: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>,
Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>,
Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] xen/xenbus: reference count registered modules
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2019 11:36:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d6998d80-99f1-ffa4-f4cf-5c9bb938587d@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191202114117.1264-2-pdurrant@amazon.com>
On 02.12.19 12:41, Paul Durrant wrote:
> To prevent a PV driver module being removed whilst attached to its other
> end, and hence xenbus calling into potentially invalid text, take a
> reference on the module before calling the probe() method (dropping it if
> unsuccessful) and drop the reference after returning from the remove()
> method.
>
> Suggested-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
> Signed-off-by: Paul Durrant <pdurrant@amazon.com>
Pushed to xen/tip.git for-linus-5.5b
Juergen
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-12-04 10:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-12-02 11:41 [PATCH v3 0/2] allow xen-blkback to be cleanly unloaded Paul Durrant
2019-12-02 11:41 ` [PATCH v3 1/2] xen/xenbus: reference count registered modules Paul Durrant
2019-12-03 9:47 ` Jan Beulich
2019-12-04 10:36 ` Jürgen Groß [this message]
2019-12-02 11:41 ` [PATCH v3 2/2] xen-blkback: allow module to be cleanly unloaded Paul Durrant
2019-12-04 10:36 ` Jürgen Groß
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