On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 15:07, Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > My take is simply that a correct user has to wait until no one else > can find the kobject before calling kobject_del. At which point > races are impossible, and it doesn't matter if sysfs_mutex is held > across the entire operation. We have circular references between kobjects in some "advanced" users. We can not break the circle without calling _del() on one of the objects involved, but at that time all of the objects are still referenced by another object. Only a _del() will break the circle, and result in a release of the objects involved. Not sure how that would behave with this change? Thanks, Kay -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
