Re: [PATCH 1/2] block: shutdown blktrace in case of fatal signal pending

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 04:14:39PM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> blktrace may allocate lots of memory, if the process is terminated
> by user or OOM, we need to provide one chance to remove the trace
> buffer, otherwise memory leak may be caused.
> 
> Fix the issue by shutdown blktrace in case of task exiting in
> blkdev_close().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@xxxxxxxxxx>

This just seems weird.  blktrace has no relationship to open
block device instances.