Re: [PATCH 00/18] SWN: Decouple witness registrations and tcons

On 07/10, Samuel Cabrero wrote:
>This patches removes the cached tcon pointers from the witness
>registrations.
>
>First patch in the serie reverts the current approach based on snapshots
>that fixes a race while processing a received notification. This
>patchset implements a different approach based on reference counting and
>fixes other races that could occur with concurrent
>register/unregister/notification processing.
>
>The witness registration stores now all required information to issue
>register/unregister DCERPC calls (like auth info and target address),
>and when a notification is received it applies it to all matching
>witness-enabled tcons.
>
>Each witness registration has its own task to enforce the registration
>in case the userspace daemon is started after mounting the share,
>instead of overload the echo task for this purpose.

@Steve you may add my Rb to the whole series.

>Samuel Cabrero (18):
>  Revert "smb: client: resolve SWN tcon from live registrations"
>  smb:client: Adjust witness notification request
>  smb:client: Rename variable to match the rest of the code
>  smb:client: Split idr remove and release functions
>  smb:client: Add a specific task to refresh witness registrations
>  smb:client: Store the tcon dstaddr in the witness registration
>  smb:client: Fix printf format string
>  smb:client: Save memory allocations
>  smb:client: Use the correct return code
>  smb:client: Improve tcon matching logic
>  smb:client: Pass the tcon to cifs_swn_send_register_message
>  smb:client: Pass the tcon to notification handlers
>  smb:client: Introduce swn_notification struct
>  smb:client: Cache auth info

@Samuel just a small observation in this patch (14/18):

It's better practice to use kfree_sensitive() when freeing
passwords (swnreg->authinfo.ntlm.password).

IMHO this can be done in a follow up patch instead of a v2.

>  smb:client: Do not store the tcon reference, find a matching one
>  smb:client: Simplify registration creation
>  smb:client: Improve registration network and share names handling
>  smb:client: Avoid witness re-register if the address did not change
>
> fs/smb/client/cifs_swn.c | 1179 ++++++++++++++++++++++----------------
> fs/smb/client/cifs_swn.h |    3 -
> fs/smb/client/connect.c  |    3 -
> fs/smb/client/trace.h    |    4 +-
> 4 files changed, 682 insertions(+), 507 deletions(-)


Cheers,

Enzo