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On 3/3/22 12:26 AM, Yazen Ghannam wrote:
> Hi Ammar,

Hi Yazen,

> ...
> The threshold interrupt handler uses this pointer. I think the goal here is to
> set this pointer when the list is fully formed and clear this pointer before
> making any changes to the list. Otherwise, the interrupt handler will operate
> on incomplete data if an interrupt comes in the middle of these updates.
> 
> The changes below should deal with memory leak issue while avoiding a race
> with the threshold interrupt. What do you think?

Thanks for taking a look into this. I didn't notice that before. The
changes look good to me, extra improvements:

1) _mce_threshold_remove_device() should be static as we don't use it
    in another translation unit.
2) Minor cleanup, we don't need "goto out_err", just early return
    directly.

I will fold them in...

-- 
Ammar Faizi