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SubjectRe: [PATCH 18/18] virtiofs: Remove TODO item from virtio_fs_free_devs()
On Thu, Sep 05, 2019 at 03:48:59PM -0400, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> virtio_fs_free_devs() is now called from ->kill_sb(). By this time
> all device queues have been quiesced. I am assuming that while
> ->kill_sb() is in progress, another mount instance will wait for
> it to finish (sb->s_umount mutex provides mutual exclusion).
>
> W.r.t ->remove path, we should be fine as we are not touching vdev
> or virtqueues. And we have reference on virtio_fs object, so we know
> rest of the data structures are valid.
>
> So I can't see the need of any additional locking yet.
>
> Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
> ---
> fs/fuse/virtio_fs.c | 2 --
> 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
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