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author | Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com> | 2019-05-23 11:31:45 -0300 |
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committer | Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com> | 2019-06-24 17:37:10 -0300 |
commit | 187229c2ddd12a5bb5cd6bb3fbef9ecbc6eead92 (patch) | |
tree | c0f05c9c81d53d3f6d79bc464ce35273f01a52a8 /mm/hmm.c | |
parent | 8a1a0cd0b770a0f40a49db923479879fa7135aae (diff) | |
download | lwn-187229c2ddd12a5bb5cd6bb3fbef9ecbc6eead92.tar.gz lwn-187229c2ddd12a5bb5cd6bb3fbef9ecbc6eead92.zip |
mm/hmm: Remove racy protection against double-unregistration
No other register/unregister kernel API attempts to provide this kind of
protection as it is inherently racy, so just drop it.
Callers should provide their own protection, and it appears nouveau
already does.
Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>
Reviewed-by: Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Tested-by: Philip Yang <Philip.Yang@amd.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/hmm.c')
-rw-r--r-- | mm/hmm.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 7 deletions
@@ -276,17 +276,11 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(hmm_mirror_register); */ void hmm_mirror_unregister(struct hmm_mirror *mirror) { - struct hmm *hmm = READ_ONCE(mirror->hmm); - - if (hmm == NULL) - return; + struct hmm *hmm = mirror->hmm; down_write(&hmm->mirrors_sem); list_del_init(&mirror->list); - /* To protect us against double unregister ... */ - mirror->hmm = NULL; up_write(&hmm->mirrors_sem); - hmm_put(hmm); } EXPORT_SYMBOL(hmm_mirror_unregister); |