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From: Shamir Rabinovith <shamir.rabinovitch-QHcLZuEGTsvQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
To: "Hefty, Sean" <sean.hefty-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
Cc: "linux-rdma-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org"
	<linux-rdma-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] librdmacm: Fix verbs leak due to reentrancy issue
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 16:48:04 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140429134803.GA11791@shamir-pc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1828884A29C6694DAF28B7E6B8A82373992F2EE8-P5GAC/sN6hkd3b2yrw5b5LfspsVTdybXVpNB7YpNyf8@public.gmane.org>

On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 06:35:45PM +0000, Hefty, Sean wrote:
> > I was out of work so I tested the patch "librdmacm: lazy initialization
> > for ib devices" today. The patch works fine for my test case. The only
> > concern I have is that I think the patch might leak verbs context. I
> > think that any call to ucma_init_device must be done with mutex locked.
> > Please correct me if I am wrong.
> 
> I think you're correct; the lock needs to move up.  I'll apply your fix.  Thanks!

librdmacm git (git://git.openfabrics.org/~shefty/librdmacm.git)
currently only has the lazy initialization patch (23ffef0 librdmacm:
Support lazy initialization) but this patch is missing. can you please
add this fix to the git if you approve it? thanks.
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-04-29 13:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-22 11:22 [PATCH] librdmacm: Fix verbs leak due to reentrancy issue shamir rabinovitch
2014-04-22 18:35 ` Hefty, Sean
     [not found]   ` <1828884A29C6694DAF28B7E6B8A82373992F2EE8-P5GAC/sN6hkd3b2yrw5b5LfspsVTdybXVpNB7YpNyf8@public.gmane.org>
2014-04-29 13:48     ` Shamir Rabinovith [this message]
2014-04-30  3:14       ` Hefty, Sean

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