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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] posix-timers: fix creation race
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 09:35:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1186990522.12828.94.camel@chaos> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070812194455.GA113@tv-sign.ru>

On Sun, 2007-08-12 at 23:44 +0400, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> > > --- t/kernel/posix-timers.c~2_CREATE	2007-08-12 17:59:17.000000000 +0400
> > > +++ t/kernel/posix-timers.c	2007-08-12 18:11:33.000000000 +0400
> > > @@ -547,13 +547,12 @@ sys_timer_create(const clockid_t which_c
> > >  				new_timer->it_process = process;
> > >  				list_add(&new_timer->list,
> > >  					 &process->signal->posix_timers);
> > > -				spin_unlock_irqrestore(&process->sighand->siglock, flags);
> > >  				if (new_timer->it_sigev_notify == (SIGEV_SIGNAL|SIGEV_THREAD_ID))
> > >  					get_task_struct(process);
> > >  			} else {
> > > -				spin_unlock_irqrestore(&process->sighand->siglock, flags);
> > >  				process = NULL;
> > >  			}
> > > +			spin_unlock_irqrestore(&process->sighand->siglock, flags);
> 
> i'll resend this patch tomorrow. We can't do spin_unlock_irqrestore(&process->...)
> if we set process = NULL above.

Doh, half of my brain seems to be still on vacation.

	tglx



      parent reply	other threads:[~2007-08-13 12:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-12 17:05 [PATCH 2/4] posix-timers: fix creation race Oleg Nesterov
2007-08-12 19:05 ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-08-12 19:44   ` Oleg Nesterov
2007-08-12 19:59     ` Oleg Nesterov
2007-08-13  7:35     ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]

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