Guido Guenther wrote: > I give up on git-send-email - it always fools me. Nevertheless this one > fixes the described bug of paths coming back as different block > devices: > > Keep a list of sysfs devices for sysfs_device_get() so uev_trigger() can look > up the necessary information for proper path removal in case of a 'remove' > uevent - the sysfs files in the filesystem might be long gone at this point. > > This also plugs a memory leak where we'd malloc space for the same sysfs device > over and over again for every processed uevent. > Hmm. But now we're running into the opposite trap: memory for a block device once existing will never be freed. So over time we're likely to become a memory hog. Better it would be to remove the sysfs device from the cache once we're done with it. I'll cook up a patch. Cheers, Hannes -- Dr. Hannes Reinecke zSeries & Storage hare@xxxxxxx +49 911 74053 688 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel
