[PATCH 2/3] vfio: Ignore sprurious notifies

From: Alex Williamson
Date: Tue Jun 11 2013 - 12:02:31 EST


Remove debugging WARN_ON if we get a spurious notify for a group that
no longer exists. No reports of anyone hitting this, but it would
likely be a race and not a bug if they did.

Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/vfio/vfio.c | 8 +++-----
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/vfio/vfio.c b/drivers/vfio/vfio.c
index 1bed313..2edfecc 100644
--- a/drivers/vfio/vfio.c
+++ b/drivers/vfio/vfio.c
@@ -508,13 +508,11 @@ static int vfio_iommu_group_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb,
struct device *dev = data;

/*
- * Need to go through a group_lock lookup to get a reference or
- * we risk racing a group being removed. Leave a WARN_ON for
- * debuging, but if the group no longer exists, a spurious notify
- * is harmless.
+ * Need to go through a group_lock lookup to get a reference or we
+ * risk racing a group being removed. Ignore spurious notifies.
*/
group = vfio_group_try_get(group);
- if (WARN_ON(!group))
+ if (!group)
return NOTIFY_OK;

switch (action) {

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