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From: Francois romieu <romieu@ensta.fr>
To: Dan Aloni <karrde@callisto.yi.org>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH (2.4)] atomic use count for proc_dir_entry
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 11:23:33 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20001117112333.D839@nic.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0011162320230.17038-100000@callisto.yi.org> <Pine.LNX.4.21.0011171015270.19287-100000@callisto.yi.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0011171015270.19287-100000@callisto.yi.org>; from karrde@callisto.yi.org on Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 10:37:39AM +0200

CPU A: assume de->count = 1 (in de_put)
fs/proc/inode.c::44 if (!--de->count) {
de->count = 0

CPU B: (in remove_proc_entry)
fs/proc/generic.c::577         if (!de->count)
fs/proc/generic.c::578             free_proc_entry(de);

CPU A: (in de_put)
fs/proc/inode.c::45 if (de->deleted) { <-- dereferencing kfreed pointer

What does protect us from the preceding if lock_kernel is thrown ?

-- 
Ueimor
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  reply	other threads:[~2000-11-17 10:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-11-16 21:00 [PATCH (2.4)] atomic use count for proc_dir_entry Dan Aloni
2000-11-16 21:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2000-11-16 21:31   ` Dan Aloni
2000-11-17  8:37     ` Dan Aloni
2000-11-17 11:23       ` Francois romieu [this message]
2000-11-17 11:40         ` Dan Aloni
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2000-11-17  5:21 Jacob Luna Lundberg
2000-11-17  7:26 ` Dan Aloni
2000-11-17  8:35   ` Jacob Luna Lundberg
2000-11-17  9:51     ` Dan Aloni
2000-11-17 11:24     ` Ingo Oeser

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