From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Race-free kernel.core_pattern
Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2008 17:49:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080127164919.GA9982@one.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080127122634.GA3497@martell.zuzino.mipt.ru>
> Yup, that's the bug.
>
> Below is companion patch to be applied after BKL removal which fixes it:
Still there are other do_string (and possibly multiple number integer) users
which are likely buggy in the same way. It's probably better to find some more
generic mechanism instead of adding a new lock for each of them.
-Andi
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-27 16:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-22 20:27 [PATCH] Remove BKL from sysctl(2) Alexey Dobriyan
2008-01-22 20:52 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-01-23 10:51 ` Alan Cox
2008-01-23 11:09 ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-23 11:38 ` Alan Cox
2008-01-24 7:56 ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-27 12:26 ` [PATCH 2/2] Race-free kernel.core_pattern Alexey Dobriyan
2008-01-27 16:49 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20080127164919.GA9982@one.firstfloor.org \
--to=andi@firstfloor.org \
--cc=adobriyan@gmail.com \
--cc=akpm@osdl.org \
--cc=alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox