On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 10:07:00AM -0500, Alan Stern wrote: > and the kernfs core insures that the underlying device won't be > deallocated while a sysfs method runs.
It has a reference to keep it from beeing freed, but so far I can't find anything that prevents ->remove from beeing called while we are in or just before a method call. > > But this seems like a more generic problem, and at least a quick glance at > > the pci_driver methods seems like others don't have a good > > synchroniation of ->remove against random driver methods. > > Can you give one or two examples? I look at the sriov_configure PCI method, or the various sub-methods under pci_driver.err_handler. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
