Re: [PATCH 3/6] liveupdate: Defer file handler module refcounting to active sessions

[Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>]

On Tue, Mar 17, 2026 at 12:39 PM David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Mar 16, 2026 at 7:50 PM Pasha Tatashin
> <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> wrote:
>
> > @@ -281,7 +282,10 @@ int luo_preserve_file(struct luo_file_set *file_set, u64 token, int fd)
> >         scoped_guard(rwsem_read, &luo_file_handler_lock) {
> >                 list_private_for_each_entry(fh, &luo_file_handler_list, list) {
> >                         if (fh->ops->can_preserve(fh, file)) {
> > -                               err = 0;
> > +                               if (try_module_get(fh->ops->owner))
> > +                                       err = 0;
> > +                               else
> > +                                       err = -ENODEV;
> >                                 break;
> >                         }
> >                 }
>
> Does LUO even need to take a reference to the file handler owner?
>
> LUO already takes a reference to the file, and the file should already
> be holding a reference to the file's owner, which should (must?) be
> the same as the file handler's owner.

Hi David,

Thanks for review. This is a very good point. I will remove taking
file handler reference entirely.

>
> For FLB it makes more sense since the FLB's owner is likely not the
> same as the file's owner.

+1.

Pasha