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From: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
To: Oren Laadan <orenl-RdfvBDnrOixBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org>
Cc: containers-cunTk1MwBs9QetFLy7KEm3xJsTq8ys+cHZ5vskTnxNA@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] epoll: Check for fdtable races
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 22:19:50 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091024031950.GB17294@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AE25253.4040100-RdfvBDnrOixBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org>

Quoting Oren Laadan (orenl-RdfvBDnrOixBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org):
> 
> 
> Matt Helsley wrote:
> > In case it's possible to race with other tasks sharing the fdtable,
> > check for NULL file * and exit with an error.
> > 
> > Please consider merging this with the first patch in the series
> > of epoll patches posted recently.
> > 
> > Reported-by: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
> > Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
> 
> Already did that when I pulled your patch.
> 
> BTW, I chose -EBUSY instead to tell the user to try again
> later... when he/she isn't malicious anymore :)

"Go stand in the corner and don't come out until you'll
be NICE to your brother!"

-serge

      parent reply	other threads:[~2009-10-24  3:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-23 18:14 [PATCH] epoll: Check for fdtable races Matt Helsley
     [not found] ` <1256321658-15646-1-git-send-email-matthltc-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2009-10-24  1:03   ` Oren Laadan
     [not found]     ` <4AE25253.4040100-RdfvBDnrOixBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org>
2009-10-24  3:19       ` Serge E. Hallyn [this message]

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