From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
To: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad@kernel.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Suzuki Poulose <suzuki@in.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: 3.6rc6 slab corruption.
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 17:18:57 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120920211857.GC27312@konrad-lan.dumpdata.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <505B12D2.1050101@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> >An alternative to this, though, might be to never test for *ppos == 0 in
> >u32_array_read() and do the format_array_alloc() in u32_array_open() to
> >initialize file->private_data. If that allocation fails, just return
> >-ENOMEM. Then you never need to add a mutex in the read path.
> >
>
> Tested-by: Raghavendra <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Excellent. Thank you!
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-20 21:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-18 14:35 3.6rc6 slab corruption Dave Jones
2012-09-18 18:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-09-18 18:53 ` Dave Jones
2012-09-19 14:00 ` Raghavendra K T
2012-09-19 17:09 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-09-19 21:27 ` David Rientjes
2012-09-19 21:41 ` Dave Jones
2012-09-18 19:23 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-09-18 20:24 ` David Rientjes
2012-09-18 20:31 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-09-18 20:36 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-09-19 0:57 ` Raghavendra K T
2012-09-18 20:35 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-09-18 20:37 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-09-18 20:49 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-09-19 1:16 ` Raghavendra K T
2012-09-19 19:16 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-09-19 21:29 ` David Rientjes
2012-09-19 21:49 ` David Rientjes
2012-09-19 23:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-09-19 23:20 ` David Rientjes
2012-09-20 21:14 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-09-20 2:29 ` Raghavendra K T
2012-09-20 2:46 ` David Rientjes
2012-09-20 2:55 ` Raghavendra K T
2012-09-20 21:18 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-09-21 9:16 ` [patch for-3.6] fs, debugfs: fix race in u32_array_read and allocate array at open David Rientjes
2012-09-21 10:22 ` Raghavendra K T
2012-09-24 22:26 ` David Rientjes
2012-09-25 2:54 ` Raghavendra K T
2012-09-20 12:57 ` 3.6rc6 slab corruption Raghavendra K T
2012-09-20 21:18 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk [this message]
2012-09-20 12:55 ` Raghavendra K T
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