On Sat, 2017-07-01 at 08:50 -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> We need to hold a reference on the 'dirent' until we are sure there
> are no more notifications that will be sent. As noted in the new
> comments we take advantage of the fact that the references are taken
> and dropped under device_lock() and that nd_device_notify() holds
> device_lock() over new badblocks notifications. The notifications
> that happen when badblocks are cleared only occur while the device is
> active.
>
> Also take the opportunity to fix up the error messages to report the
> user visible effect of a sysfs_get_dirent() failure.
>
> Fixes: 975750a98c26 ("libnvdimm, pmem: Add sysfs notifications to
> badblocks")
> Cc: Toshi Kani <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Toshi Kani <[email protected]>
Thanks Dan!
-Toshi
