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From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
To: Filipe Brandenburger <filbranden@gmail.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] locks: prevent side-effects of locks_release_private before file_lock is initialized
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 11:23:37 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120626152336.GD14279@fieldses.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABe66sXc6tD83D=w_=YeNBo-5A7Q_KPTCq1-Dfnk9JCNw0i5ug@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 10:10:35PM -0400, Filipe Brandenburger wrote:
> Just to let you know that I just tested the patch below on top of
> 3.5.0-rc4 and it works fine...
> 
> Do you like the idea of this second patch or do you prefer the
> __locks_free_lock() one?

Like I said:

> Let's just go with your first patch and free the thing by hand (but
> add a comment explaining why).
> 
> Then come back and figure out how to make the interface clearer once
> we've got the bug fixed.

--b.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-06-26 15:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-16  3:06 [PATCH 0/1] locks: prevent side-effects of locks_release_private before file_lock is initialized Filipe Brandenburger
2012-06-16  3:06 ` [PATCH 1/1] " Filipe Brandenburger
2012-06-18 20:01   ` J. Bruce Fields
2012-06-20  2:39     ` Filipe Brandenburger
2012-06-26  0:29       ` J. Bruce Fields
2012-06-26  0:48         ` Filipe Brandenburger
2012-06-26  2:10           ` Filipe Brandenburger
2012-06-26  2:10             ` Filipe Brandenburger
2012-06-26 15:23             ` J. Bruce Fields [this message]
2012-06-27  1:50 ` [PATCH v2 " Filipe Brandenburger
2012-07-05 22:42   ` J. Bruce Fields
2012-07-07 19:04     ` J. Bruce Fields
2012-07-27  4:42       ` [PATCHv3] " Filipe Brandenburger
2012-07-27 20:45         ` J. Bruce Fields
2012-07-29 15:56           ` J. Bruce Fields

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