On Sat, 12 Nov 2022 16:00:39 +0530, Siddh Raman Pant wrote: > There is a dangling reference to pipe in a watch_queue after clearing it. > Thus, NULL that pointer while clearing. > > This change renders wqueue->defunct superfluous, as the latter is only used > to check if watch_queue is cleared. With this change, the pipe is NULLed > while clearing, so we can just check if the pipe is NULL. > > Extending comment for watch_queue->pipe in the definition of watch_queue > made the comment conventionally too long (it was already past 80 chars), > so I have changed the struct annotations to be kerneldoc-styled, so that > I can extend the comment mentioning that the pipe is NULL when watch_queue > is cleared. In the process, I have also hopefully improved documentation > by documenting things which weren't documented before. > > Changes in v2: > - Merged the NULLing and removing defunct patches. > - Removed READ_ONCE barrier in lock_wqueue(). > - Improved and fixed errors in struct docs. > - Better commit messages. > > Original date of posting patch: 6 Aug 2022 > > Siddh Raman Pant (2): > include/linux/watch_queue: Improve documentation > kernel/watch_queue: NULL the dangling *pipe, and use it for clear > check > > include/linux/watch_queue.h | 100 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------- > kernel/watch_queue.c | 12 ++--- > 2 files changed, 79 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-) > Hi, Please review the quoted patches, which can be found on: https://lore.kernel.org/all/cover.1668248462.git.code@xxxxxxxx/ Please let me know if any changes are required. Thanks, Siddh
