From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Mike Marciniszyn <infinipath@qlogic.com>
Cc: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: races in ipathfs
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2012 22:40:07 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120318224007.GF6589@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120318184547.GA6814@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 06:45:47PM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 08:20:04PM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> > Use of qib_super is seriously racy. qibfs_add() (and worse,
> > qibfs_remove()) can happen during qibfs_mount() and qibfs_kill_super().
>
> [snip]
>
> FWIW, I've put a completely untested patchset into
> git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs.git qibfs
Corresponding fix for ipathfs added to the same branch; again, completely
untested.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-18 22:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-19 20:20 races in ipathfs Al Viro
2012-01-20 13:55 ` Mike Marciniszyn
2012-03-18 18:45 ` Al Viro
2012-03-18 22:40 ` Al Viro [this message]
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