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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/3] pstore: pass allocated memory region back to caller
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On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 3:12 PM, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:
> Since pstore's buf_lock cannot be held while doing the VFS population,
> these patches make it the backend's responsibility to pass up an allocated
> buffer instead during reads.

The split into three parts is good for review purposes - but I'll
squish them all together
into one commit to avoid breaking bisectability.

I'm trying to work out whether I should be worried about the removal
of the locks
around the:

(*open)(...)
while (size = (*read)(...)) {
}
(*close)()

section in pstore_get_records(). If someone tries to simultaneously mount
pstore in multiple places - will the upper level mount code serialize? I don't
think the backends will be happy if multiple callers execute that at the same
time.

-Tony


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