From: Andrei Borzenkov <arvidjaar@gmail.com>
To: The development of GNU GRUB <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Add check when store disk cache
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2015 07:03:33 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <55FB8D15.40604@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANeKxEAZ1gKK63jkZjL7+qrdKuZbywRF5j1rwTcZDnOQGtiksg@mail.gmail.com>
18.09.2015 03:15, Arch Stack пишет:
> I found that the function *grub_disk_cache_store* didn't check for
> *cache->lock* before free *cache->data*, and didn't set *cache->lock*
> before memcpy something to *cache->data*. If multi thread handle with the
> same cache at the same time, it will cause a fault.
Do you actually observe a problem or it is pure hypothesis? GRUB does
not run multi-threaded and probably never will.
> I have created a patch
> for it.
>
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-09-18 4:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-09-18 0:15 Add check when store disk cache Arch Stack
2015-09-18 4:03 ` Andrei Borzenkov [this message]
2015-09-18 9:07 ` Arch Stack
2015-09-19 7:00 ` Andrei Borzenkov
2015-10-13 22:55 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
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