Re: [RFC 0/3] block: address blktrace use-after-free

[Luis Chamberlain]

On Fri, Apr 03, 2020 at 07:13:47AM -0700, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> On 2020-04-03 01:19, Ming Lei wrote:
> > BTW, Yu Kuai posted one patch for this issue, looks that approach
> > is simpler:
> > 
> > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-block/20200324132315.22133-1-yukuai3@xxxxxxxxxx/
> 
> That approach is indeed simpler but at the expense of performing dynamic
> memory allocation in a cleanup path, something I'm not enthusiast about.

I also think that its important to annotate that there are actually two
issues here. Not one. One is the misuse of debugfs, the other is how
the deferral exposed the misuse and complications of its misuse.

  Luis