Re: zram: zram_free_page calls in zram_meta_free

From: Sergey Senozhatsky
Date: Tue Nov 07 2023 - 02:23:58 EST


On (23/11/06 23:42), Vasily Averin wrote:
> The only place where content of zram entry is accessed and even changed without taken zran lock is
> zram_free_page() calls from zram_meta_free().
>
> It does not look like problem because zram should not have any users at this point,
> however I still do not understand why this is required?

It's simply pointless. Reset is performed under write init_lock,
which is an upper level per-device lock.