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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] unserialized task->files changing
Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 11:12:08 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060808101208.GA25956@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44D86275.2080406@sw.ru>

On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 02:07:49PM +0400, Kirill Korotaev wrote:
> Fixed race on put_files_struct on exec with proc.
> Restoring files on current on error path may lead
> to proc having a pointer to already kfree-d files_struct.

This is three times the exact same code sequence, it should probably go into
a helper:

void reset_current_files(struct files_struct *files)
{
	struct files_struct *old = current->files;

	task_lock(current);
	current->files = files;
	task_unlock(current);
	put_files_struct(old);
}


  reply	other threads:[~2006-08-08 10:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-08 10:07 [PATCH] unserialized task->files changing Kirill Korotaev
2006-08-08 10:12 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2006-08-08 10:23   ` Eric Dumazet
2006-08-08 10:43     ` Kirill Korotaev

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