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authorJason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>2019-05-23 11:31:45 -0300
committerJason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>2019-06-24 17:37:10 -0300
commit187229c2ddd12a5bb5cd6bb3fbef9ecbc6eead92 (patch)
treec0f05c9c81d53d3f6d79bc464ce35273f01a52a8 /mm/hmm.c
parent8a1a0cd0b770a0f40a49db923479879fa7135aae (diff)
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.c8
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/mm/hmm.c b/mm/hmm.c
index 6f5dc6d568fe..2ef14b2b5505 100644
--- a/mm/hmm.c
+++ b/mm/hmm.c
@@ -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);