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From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Cc: Daniel J Blueman <daniel.blueman@gmail.com>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [2.6.37-rc1] sys_ioprio_set and RCU locking...
Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2010 13:50:44 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101109215044.GB4032@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CD9B07E.70502@fusionio.com>

On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 09:35:10PM +0100, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On 2010-11-08 14:55, Jens Axboe wrote:
> >>>>> Take the RCU lock for read across acquiring the pointer to the task
> >>>>> credentials and dereferencing it.
> >>>>
> >>>> Jens, does this look sane?
> >>>
> >>> Yes, looks clean enough to me.
> >>
> >> Very good!  Are you willing to take the patch in your tree?
> > 
> > Certainly, I'm in the middle of patch monkeying now anyway. Will queue
> > it up.
> 
> The patch was buggy, I discovered that it does not do the proper
> RCU unlock if we fail the uid match. Merged version here:
> 
> http://git.kernel.dk/?p=linux-2.6-block.git;a=commit;h=1a882abdbf9579ad0e5655f928e4ede30db301e6

Ouch!!!  I missed that one entirely, good catch!!!

							Thanx, Paul

      parent reply	other threads:[~2010-11-09 21:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-02 12:15 [2.6.37-rc1] sys_ioprio_set and RCU locking Daniel J Blueman
2010-11-07 18:54 ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-11-08 13:28   ` Jens Axboe
2010-11-08 13:52     ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-11-08 13:55       ` Jens Axboe
2010-11-09 20:35         ` Jens Axboe
2010-11-09 21:49           ` Daniel J Blueman
2010-11-09 21:50           ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]

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