Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 12 Dec 2012 11:45:00 +0100 | From | Olaf Hering <> | Subject | Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen/blkback: prevent repeated backend_changed invocations |
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On Wed, Dec 12, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-12-12 at 09:42 +0000, Jan Beulich wrote: > > >>> On 11.12.12 at 21:50, Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de> wrote: > > > backend_changed might be called multiple times, which will leak > > > be->mode. Make sure it will be called only once. Remove some unneeded > > > checks. Also the be->mode string was leaked, release the memory on > > > device shutdown. > > > > So did I miss some discussion here? I haven't seen any > > confirmation of this function indeed being supposed to be called > > just once. > > > > Also, as said previously, if indeed it is to be called just once, > > removing the watch during/after the first invocation would seem > > to be the more appropriate thing to do. > > The watch fires (often needlessly) when you first register it so in the > common case it is going to be called twice. Of course that first time > should abort early on so perhaps that's a moot point.
The current code handles that, if a property does not exist the function will exit early.
Olaf
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