From: Tony Battersby <tonyb@cybernetics.com>
To: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>,
dgilbert@interlog.com, James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com,
hch@infradead.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] sg: fix races during device removal (v2)
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:23:00 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <496FB744.90501@cybernetics.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <496FB168.6080407@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Stefan Richter wrote:
> Tony Battersby wrote:
>
>> OK, so your argument now seems to be that the code just might in
>> practice work correctly, but in theory it is not philosophically right,
>> semantically pure, or politically correct
>>
>
> Nonsense.
>
> I wrote that there is a bug if you have a reference while the reference
> count is zero.
>
Being pragmatic, I call that a _philosophical_ objection rather than a
bug because the code does actually work in practice as far as I can
tell. But you can call it a bug if you like. If you want me to give in
and call it a bug, then you will have to come up with an actual case
where the code fails to do the right thing - memory use after free,
double free, memory leak, oops, etc.
Tony
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-15 22:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-05 19:07 [PATCH 0/2] sg: fix races during device removal (v2) Tony Battersby
2009-01-08 23:21 ` Douglas Gilbert
2009-01-10 17:26 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2009-01-12 21:09 ` Tony Battersby
2009-01-13 16:24 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2009-01-14 20:31 ` Tony Battersby
2009-01-14 21:39 ` Greg KH
2009-01-14 21:59 ` Tony Battersby
2009-01-14 22:33 ` Stefan Richter
2009-01-14 22:53 ` Tony Battersby
2009-01-14 23:47 ` Stefan Richter
2009-01-15 14:47 ` Tony Battersby
2009-01-15 16:22 ` Stefan Richter
2009-01-15 16:44 ` Stefan Richter
2009-01-15 18:17 ` Tony Battersby
2009-01-15 18:47 ` Stefan Richter
2009-01-15 19:14 ` Stefan Richter
2009-01-15 19:20 ` Tony Battersby
2009-01-15 20:43 ` Stefan Richter
2009-01-15 21:43 ` Tony Battersby
2009-01-15 21:58 ` Stefan Richter
2009-01-15 22:23 ` Tony Battersby [this message]
2009-01-15 23:24 ` Stefan Richter
2009-01-16 14:16 ` Tony Battersby
2009-01-16 0:53 ` Stefan Richter
2009-01-16 8:09 ` Stefan Richter
2009-01-19 6:57 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2009-01-19 15:02 ` Tony Battersby
2009-01-19 23:03 ` [PATCH 1/2] sg: fix races during device removal (v4) Tony Battersby
2009-01-20 1:06 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2009-01-20 21:58 ` [PATCH 1/2] sg: fix races during device removal (v5) Tony Battersby
2009-01-21 18:25 ` Stefan Richter
2009-01-21 19:23 ` Tony Battersby
2009-01-21 19:45 ` [PATCH 1/2] sg: fix races during device removal (v6) Tony Battersby
2009-01-25 12:46 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2009-01-26 13:57 ` Douglas Gilbert
2009-01-28 1:51 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2009-01-28 15:06 ` James Bottomley
2009-01-20 22:00 ` [PATCH 2/2] sg: fix races with ioctl(SG_IO) (v2) Tony Battersby
2009-01-25 12:46 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2009-01-19 23:06 ` [PATCH 2/2] sg: fix races with ioctl(SG_IO) Tony Battersby
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