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What guarantees that it doesn't happen before we get to callback? AFAICS, nothing whatsoever...

And if it does happen, we'll get rdev happily freed (by rdev_free(), as ->release() of &rdev->kobj) by the time we get to delayed_delete(). Which explains what's going on just fine.

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Posted Jan 14, 2008 16:42 UTC (Mon) by rwmj (subscriber, #5474) [Link]

Garbage collection!!

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Posted Jan 14, 2008 21:03 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Yeah, 'cos what we really *need* in the kernel is net/unix/garbage.c 
applied to everything!

:/

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Posted Jan 15, 2008 22:48 UTC (Tue) by viro (subscriber, #7872) [Link]

[wry] I think you've misparsed him - s/garbage/rubbish/ and it might
make more sense.  Certainly an apt description of sysfs-related code
in general. [/wry]

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Posted Jan 16, 2008 8:39 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Ah, right. Yes, that parses. (Also: the human whose job it is to place all 
the garbage in one subdirectory, prior to rm -rf.)

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