Re: [PATCH] blk-cgroup: delay calling blkcg_exit_disk until disk_release

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On Wed, Feb 08, 2023 at 04:12:31PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 08, 2023 at 03:38:40PM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> > > This now can cause a case where disk_release is called on a disk
> > > that hasn't been added.  That's mostly harmless, except for a case
> > > in blk_throttl_exit that now needs to check for a NULL ->td pointer.
> > 
> > With this way, blkcg_init_disk() could be called before q->root_blkg
> > is released in disk unbind & rebind use case, then memory leak?
> 
> q->root_blkg is now disk->root_blkg.  So in an unind and rebind case
> a different disk will be involved.

OK.

Another thing is that blkcg_init_disk() and blkcg_exit_disk() becomes
asymmetrical with this patch. So alloc_disk() & add_disk(), del_disk() & put_disk()
have to be done together. If it may be documented, this patch looks
fine.


Thanks, 
Ming




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