On 11/08/2015 16:02, nick wrote: > Our we to just assume > that calls to kvm_io_bug_unregister_dev always succeed as I disagree due to > it allocating memory in kernel space that can easily fail. In additon I > was wondering how the maintainers would like me to handle these calls as > it's difficult due to it already being in error paths. Further more below > is a link to the files and how the calls to kvm_io_bus_register_dev are > executed in the respective error paths. > http://lxr.free-electrons.com/ident?i=kvm_io_bus_unregister_dev You're right; the fix is not simple. The best way is to introduce a new API to register or unregister multiple devices atomically. This gets rid of calls in the error paths. Paolo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
