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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Cc: trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no, bfields@fieldses.org,
	nfsv4@linux-nfs.org, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] NLM: hold BKL when clearing global lockd task and serv vars
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 12:45:01 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080407164500.GA17728@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1207575514-6703-2-git-send-email-jlayton@redhat.com>

On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 09:38:34AM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote:
> The global task and serv pointers for lockd are normally protected by
> the nlmsvc_mutex. The exception is when the lockd exits abnormally. When
> this occurs, these variables are cleared without any locking.

Shouldn't we get rid of the case where it exits abnormally instead?


  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-07 16:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-07 13:38 [PATCH] NFS: hold BKL when clearing nfs_callback_info.task Jeff Layton
2008-04-07 13:38 ` [PATCH] NLM: hold BKL when clearing global lockd task and serv vars Jeff Layton
2008-04-07 16:45   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2008-04-07 17:40     ` Jeff Layton
2008-04-07 17:56     ` J. Bruce Fields
2008-04-07 19:08       ` Tom Tucker
2008-04-07 20:22       ` Jeff Layton
2008-04-07 20:50         ` J. Bruce Fields
2008-04-08 13:21           ` Jeff Layton
2008-04-08 16:28             ` J. Bruce Fields
2008-04-08 17:02               ` Jeff Layton
2008-04-08 19:16               ` Jeff Layton
2008-04-08 20:08               ` Chuck Lever
2008-04-08 20:20                 ` Jeff Layton

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