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From: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [patch, lock validator] fix uidhash_lock <-> RCU deadlock
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 08:59:37 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1138208378.3992.7.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060125142307.GA5427@elte.hu>

On Wed, 2006-01-25 at 15:23 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> RCU task-struct freeing can call free_uid(), which is taking 
> uidhash_lock - while other users of uidhash_lock are softirq-unsafe.
> 
> This bug was found by the lock validator i'm working on:

What is it doing exactly ?

Daniel


  reply	other threads:[~2006-01-25 16:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-25 14:23 [patch, lock validator] fix uidhash_lock <-> RCU deadlock Ingo Molnar
2006-01-25 16:59 ` Daniel Walker [this message]
2006-01-29 13:55   ` Ingo Molnar
2006-01-26 11:13 ` Paul E. McKenney
2006-01-28  0:22   ` Linus Torvalds
2006-01-28  2:40     ` Paul E. McKenney
2006-01-30  4:14     ` Paul E. McKenney

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