Re: [PATCH] nbd: fix possible sysfs duplicate warning

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On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 11:44:27AM +0530, xiubli@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: Xiubo Li <xiubli@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> 1. nbd_put takes the mutex and drops nbd->ref to 0. It then does
> idr_remove and drops the mutex.
> 
> 2. nbd_genl_connect takes the mutex. idr_find/idr_for_each fails
> to find an existing device, so it does nbd_dev_add.
> 
> 3. just before the nbd_put could call nbd_dev_remove or not finished
> totally, but if nbd_dev_add try to add_disk, we can hit:
> 
> debugfs: Directory 'nbd1' with parent 'block' already present!
> 
> This patch will make sure all the disk add/remove stuff are done
> by holding the nbd_index_mutex lock.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Xiubo Li <xiubli@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: Mike Christie <mchristi@xxxxxxxxxx>

Sorry, don't know how I missed this.

Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <josef@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks,

Josef



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