Re: [PATCH v3 3/6] floppy: avoid leaking extra reference to queue ondo_floppy_init error handling

From: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski
Date: Tue Aug 14 2012 - 10:27:01 EST


On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 11:03:30AM +0200, Stanislaw Gruszka wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 04:20:39AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > It's totally ridiculous that a driver should have to do this. Any
> > registered disk should have the GENHD_FL_UP flag set... so why can't
> > genhd check it? It doesn't look like floppy is the only driver affected
> > by this problem, either. So I suggest the following general fix
> > (untested):
> >
> > ---
> > Subject: genhd: Make put_disk() safe for disks that have not been registered
> >
> > Since commit 9f53d2f ('block: fix __blkdev_get and add_disk race
> > condition'), add_disk() adds a reference to disk->queue,
>
> I do not see this? Commit 9f53d2fe insert disk_alloc_events() to add_disk(),
> but disk_alloc_events() function does not get any reference to disk->queue,
> I missed something?

I think he meant commit 523e1d3 ("block: make gendisk hold a reference
to its queue") instead.

>
> Stanislaw
>

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