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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	syzbot <syzbot+5b1df0420c523b45a953@syzkaller.appspotmail.com>,
	bcrl <bcrl@kvack.org>, linux-aio <linux-aio@kvack.org>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	syzkaller-bugs <syzkaller-bugs@googlegroups.com>,
	Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: possible deadlock in aio_poll
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2018 23:33:35 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180911063335.GA3315@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJfpeguWqJgU8EfjvOtsBYRbbY2J7Ck2oNUcLNS8my9g2eNZfA@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 08:14:20PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> Why do pollable waitqueues need to disable interrupts generally?

Any waitqueue needs to disable interrupts for consistency.  We
always use spin_lock_irqsave in __wake_up_common_lock() for example.

  reply	other threads:[~2018-09-11 11:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-09-10  7:41 possible deadlock in aio_poll syzbot
2018-09-10 16:53 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-09-10 18:14   ` Miklos Szeredi
2018-09-11  6:33     ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2018-09-11  7:20       ` Miklos Szeredi
2018-10-17 23:55   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2018-10-27  6:16 ` syzbot

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