Re: [PATCH v4 30/32] cxlflash: Fix to avoid corrupting adapter fops

2015-09-30 Thread Brian King
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Re: [PATCH v4 30/32] cxlflash: Fix to avoid corrupting adapter fops

2015-09-29 Thread Daniel Axtens
"Matthew R. Ochs" writes: > The corruption that this fix remedies is due to the fact that the fops > is initially defaulted to values found within a static structure. When > the fops is handed down to the CXL services later in the attach path, > certain services are patched. The fops structure re

Re: [PATCH v4 30/32] cxlflash: Fix to avoid corrupting adapter fops

2015-09-28 Thread Andrew Donnellan
On 26/09/15 09:19, Matthew R. Ochs wrote: The fops owned by the adapter can be corrupted in certain scenarios, opening a window where certain fops are temporarily NULLed before being reset to their proper value. This can potentially lead software to make incorrect decisions, leaving the user with

[PATCH v4 30/32] cxlflash: Fix to avoid corrupting adapter fops

2015-09-25 Thread Matthew R. Ochs
The fops owned by the adapter can be corrupted in certain scenarios, opening a window where certain fops are temporarily NULLed before being reset to their proper value. This can potentially lead software to make incorrect decisions, leaving the user with the inability to function as intended. An