On 11/24/2015 04:24 PM, Wenwei Tao wrote:
To avoid race conditions, traverse dev, media manager,
and targeet lists and also register, unregister entries
to/from them, should be always under the nvm_lock control.

Signed-off-by: Wenwei Tao <[email protected]>
---
  drivers/lightnvm/core.c | 19 +++++++++++++------
  1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/lightnvm/core.c b/drivers/lightnvm/core.c
index f659e60..39aec3a 100644
--- a/drivers/lightnvm/core.c
+++ b/drivers/lightnvm/core.c
@@ -333,19 +333,19 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(nvm_register);

  void nvm_unregister(char *disk_name)
  {
+       down_write(&nvm_lock);
        struct nvm_dev *dev = nvm_find_nvm_dev(disk_name);

In nvm_find_nvm_dev, can we instead replace it with list_for_each_entry_safe. Then we are sure that we won't hit a missing element, and will make the other cases significantly cleaner.


        if (!dev) {
                pr_err("nvm: could not find device %s to unregister\n",
                                                                disk_name);
+               up_write(&nvm_lock);
                return;
        }

-       nvm_exit(dev);
-
-       down_write(&nvm_lock);
        list_del(&dev->devices);
        up_write(&nvm_lock);
+       nvm_exit(dev);
  }
  EXPORT_SYMBOL(nvm_unregister);

@@ -365,12 +365,15 @@ static int nvm_create_target(struct nvm_dev *dev,
        void *targetdata;
        int ret = 0;

+       down_write(&nvm_lock);
        if (!dev->mt) {
                /* register with device with a supported NVM manager */
                list_for_each_entry(mt, &nvm_mgrs, list) {

Same with this one?
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