[PATCH v3 06/18] nvmet-fcloop: sync targetport removal

[Daniel Wagner]

On Fri, Mar 21, 2025 at 07:08:32AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 18, 2025 at 11:40:00AM +0100, Daniel Wagner wrote:
> > The nvmet-fc uses references on the targetport to ensure no UAFs
> > happens. The consequence is that when the targetport is unregistered,
> > not all resources are freed immediately. Ensure that all activities from
> > the unregister call have been submitted (deassocication) before
> > continuing with the shutdown sequence.
> 
> This needs to explain why that is needed.  In general a completion
> waiting for references to go away is a bit of an anti-patter, so
> it should come with a good excuse.

FWIW, I was able to drop this patch and also the similar code for the
lport object. The reason is with the 'nvmet-fcloop: allocate/free
fcloop_lsreq directly' patch this is not necessary anymore.