Only take nvmf_transports_rwsem when doing a lookup of registered
transports, so that a blocking ->create_ctrl doesn't prevent other
actions on /dev/nvme-fabrics.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
[hch: increased lock hold time a bit to be safe, added a comment
and updated the changelog]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
ret = -EBUSY;
goto out_unlock;
}
+ up_read(&nvmf_transports_rwsem);
ret = nvmf_check_required_opts(opts, ops->required_opts);
if (ret)
}
module_put(ops->module);
- up_read(&nvmf_transports_rwsem);
return ctrl;
out_module_put:
module_put(ops->module);
+ goto out_free_opts;
out_unlock:
up_read(&nvmf_transports_rwsem);
out_free_opts:
* 1. At minimum, 'required_opts' and 'allowed_opts' should
* be set to the same enum parsing options defined earlier.
* 2. create_ctrl() must be defined (even if it does nothing)
+ * 3. struct nvmf_transport_ops must be statically allocated in the
+ * modules .bss section so that a pure module_get on @module
+ * prevents the memory from beeing freed.
*/
struct nvmf_transport_ops {
struct list_head entry;