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From: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
To: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] reducing overheads in fget/fput
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 01:28:36 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030428195836.GD1105@in.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030428193228.GP10374@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>

On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 08:32:28PM +0100, viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk wrote:
> You are.  Have a process share file table at the time of call and
> have its sibling die in the middle.  Oops - condition that had
> been true at time of fget_light() (->files->count > 1) is false
> at the time we fput_light().  Have fun - we had just leaked a
> reference to struct file.

That shouldn't be very difficult to fix. For the fget_light/fput_light
pair in a syscall, we make the files->count == 1 check only once at the 
beginning. Do you see a problem with that ?

Thanks
Dipankar

  reply	other threads:[~2003-04-28 19:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-04-28 16:52 [PATCH] reducing overheads in fget/fput Dipankar Sarma
2003-04-28 19:32 ` viro
2003-04-28 19:58   ` Dipankar Sarma [this message]
2003-05-02 17:17     ` Dipankar Sarma
2003-05-02 20:54       ` Andrew Morton
2003-05-03  3:53         ` Dipankar Sarma
2003-05-03  4:00           ` Andrew Morton
2003-05-03  4:24             ` Dipankar Sarma

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