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From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>,
	Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] taskstats: add_del_listener() should ignore !valid listener's
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 16:29:20 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110721142920.GA5580@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110721125051.GA5443@albatros>

On 07/21, Vasiliy Kulikov wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 23:01 +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> >
> > Not sure I understand... This is not optimizing, the patch tries to
> > fix the unlikely (in fact mostly theoretical) and minor problem.
>
> Ah, I see the problem here.  Yes, then it surely makes sense.

Yes, agreed.

Just in case... please note that "s->pid can be reused" doesn't
necessarily mean this pid was reused by kernel. For example, a
task can close the socket without DEREGISTER, then create another
one and do REGISTER which can race with send_cpu_listeners().
Afaics.

All this register/deregister logic doesn't look very right, imho.

> Reviewed-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com>

Thanks,

Oleg.


  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-21 14:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-20 18:59 [PATCH 0/2] 26c4caea "don't allow duplicate entries in listener mode" fix Oleg Nesterov
2011-07-20 19:00 ` [PATCH 1/2] taskstats: add_del_listener() shouldn't use the wrong node Oleg Nesterov
2011-07-20 19:50   ` Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-07-21 12:28   ` Jerome Marchand
2011-07-20 19:00 ` [PATCH 2/2] taskstats: add_del_listener() should ignore !valid listener's Oleg Nesterov
2011-07-20 19:46   ` Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-07-20 21:01     ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-07-21 12:50       ` Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-07-21 14:29         ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2011-07-21 15:49   ` Balbir Singh

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