From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: " 홍신 shin hong " <hongshin@gmail.com>
Cc: adilger@sun.com, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: a suspected data race bug in Ext4 file system
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 18:51:09 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081106185109.ce8be9b8.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2014bcab0811061809vca13befn813440a32dda3914@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, 7 Nov 2008 11:09:49 +0900 "______ shin hong" <hongshin@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Ext4 maintainer,
>
> I found a suspected data race bug at ext4_release_file() in ext4/file.c .
>
> Is it necessary to re-check whether the if-statement's
> condition(atomic_read(&inode->i_writecount) == 1) is satisifed after
> semaphore down operation?
>
> It seems to use "test and test and set" pattern(double-checking)
> but the second "test" seems to be missed.
>
> Please examine this function. Thank you.
>
> p.s. I sent the same report to sct@redhat.com. But I did not received
> any reply.
> I think my mail was discarded so I am sending the same again.
>
An appropriate way to report this possible bug is to Cc: the ext4 mailing
list, which I have cc'ed here.
Thanks.
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2008-11-07 2:51 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2008-11-07 18:56 ` a suspected data race bug in Ext4 file system Mingming Cao
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