Re: [PATCH 08/10] staging: erofs: locked before registering for all new workgroups

From: Gao Xiang
Date: Thu Nov 22 2018 - 05:35:14 EST


Hi Greg,

On 2018/11/22 18:24, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>> + /* lock all primary followed works before visible to others */
>> + if (unlikely(!mutex_trylock(&work->lock)))
>> + /* for a new workgroup, try_lock *never* fails */
>> + DBG_BUGON(1);
> Again, drop this, if it never fails, then there's no need for this. If
> it can fail, then properly handle it.
>
> And trylock can fail, so this needs to be fixed.

OK, I will drop this.

Thanks,
Gao Xiang

>
> thanks,