Re: [PATCH v2] vduse: Fix NULL pointer dereference on sysfs access

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On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 10:37:17PM +0800, Yongji Xie wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 10:18 PM Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 10:02:02PM +0800, Yongji Xie wrote:
> > > > This should not be needed, when your module is unloaded, all devices it
> > > > handled should be properly removed by it.
> > > >
> > >
> > > I see. But it's not easy to achieve that currently. Maybe we need
> > > something like DEVICE_NEEDS_RESET support in virtio core.
> >
> > Not sure what the connection is.
> >
> 
> If we want to force remove all working vduse devices during module
> unload, we might need to send a DEVICE_NEEDS_RESET notification to
> device driver to do some cleanup before, e.g., return error for all
> inflight I/Os.
> 
> Thanks,
> Yongji

IMHO DEVICE_NEEDS_RESET won't help much with that, it's more in
case device is still there but needs a reset to start working.

-- 
MST

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