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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: Sat, 19 Sep 2015 10:00:32 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55FD0810.30703@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANeKxEAfJ4pOD8m7dfq9bNyrjNjGL1nZOJxWZksYZyF+yq2A3g@mail.gmail.com>

18.09.2015 12:07, Arch Stack пишет:
> I want to use the part of the filesystem codes in GRUB to read different
> filesystems on Windows. I have almost completed it and I will release it in
> a few days.
> But it crash sometimes because of the write of zero pointer.I debug it and
> find why it crashed.

Please show stack trace of crash. GRUB does not run multithreaded so 
something different must happen.

> When I apply this patch, it won't crash because of this
> reason.
>
> On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 12:03 PM, Andrei Borzenkov <arvidjaar@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> 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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  reply	other threads:[~2015-09-19  7:00 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
2015-09-18  9:07   ` Arch Stack
2015-09-19  7:00     ` Andrei Borzenkov [this message]
2015-10-13 22:55       ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko

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