From: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
To: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] Fix epoll delayed initialization bug ...
Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 06:47:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050917054742.GI19626@ftp.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52hdckk1ix.fsf@cisco.com>
On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 04:59:02PM -0700, Roland Dreier wrote:
> Davide> Al found a potential problem in epoll_create(), where the
> Davide> file->private_data member was set after fd_install(). This is
> Davide> obviously wrong since another thread might do a close() on
> Davide> that fd# before we set the file->private_data member. This
> Davide> goes over 2.6.13 and passes a few basic tests I've done here.
>
> Actually, I found the problem after Al pointed out a similar bug in my code ;)
Yup.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-17 5:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-16 23:35 [patch] Fix epoll delayed initialization bug Davide Libenzi
2005-09-16 23:50 ` Andrew Morton
2005-09-16 23:56 ` Davide Libenzi
2005-09-17 0:05 ` Andrew Morton
2005-09-17 2:37 ` Paul Jackson
2005-09-16 23:59 ` Roland Dreier
2005-09-17 5:47 ` Al Viro [this message]
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