WARNING - OLD ARCHIVES

This is an archived copy of the Xen.org mailing list, which we have preserved to ensure that existing links to archives are not broken. The live archive, which contains the latest emails, can be found at http://lists.xen.org/
   
 
 
Xen 
 
Home Products Support Community News
 
   
 

xen-devel

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Fix blkback/blktap sysfs read bug.

>>> "Joe Jin" <joe.jin@xxxxxxxxxx> 19.01.10 10:52 >>>
>At backend driver blkback and blktap, when checking statistics information,
>at the time vbd device remove, kernel will crash.
>
>Below patch will fix it, please review and apply.

This isn't a complete fix if I follow your analysis: There's still a race
between blk{back,tap}_remove() freeing be->blkif/be and the sysfs
code. dev->dev.driver_data (and possibly be->blkif) must be cleared
before freeing it (them).

Jan



_______________________________________________
Xen-devel mailing list
Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel