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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@transmeta.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [TRIVIAL] kstrdup
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 22:38:03 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030114033803.GG404@gtf.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200301140328.h0E3SFqZ004587@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>

On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 10:28:14PM -0500, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> Out of curiosity, who's job is it to avoid the race condition between when
> this function takes the strlen() and the other processor makes it a longer
> string before we return from kmalloc() and do the strcpy()?

The caller's.


  reply	other threads:[~2003-01-14  3:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-01-14  1:55 [PATCH] [TRIVIAL] kstrdup Rusty Russell
2003-01-14  3:19 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-01-15  6:45   ` Rusty Russell
2003-01-14  3:28 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-01-14  3:38   ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2003-01-14  3:53     ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-01-14  4:15       ` Jeff Garzik
2003-01-14  5:15         ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-01-14 11:48 ` Olaf Dietsche
2003-01-15  6:55   ` Rusty Russell
2003-01-19 23:37 ` Pavel Machek
2003-01-22  2:04   ` Rusty Russell
2003-01-23 14:02     ` Pavel Machek
2003-01-23 14:21       ` Martin Mares
2003-01-23 14:44         ` Pavel Machek
2003-01-29  4:51       ` Rusty Russell

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