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From: Paul Clements <Paul.Clements@SteelEye.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: ldl@aros.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.6.0 NBD driver: remove send/recieve race for request
Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2003 13:05:04 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F33D840.2B9CDB03@SteelEye.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20030807222718.5ef37049.akpm@osdl.org

Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> Paul Clements <Paul.Clements@SteelEye.com> wrote:
> >
> > Here's the patch to fix up several race conditions in nbd. It requires
> >  reverting the already included (but admittedly incomplete)
> >  nbd-race-fix.patch that's in -mm5.
> >
> >  Andrew, please apply.
> 
> Sure.  Could I please have a summary of what races were fixed, and how?

I outlined the other races in the mail I just sent. In addition, the
updated patch will fix an Oops where lo->sock gets set to NULL (by
NBD_CLEAR_SOCK) before NBD_DO_IT completes. This can happen when
"nbd-client -d" is called to disconnect the nbd socket.

--
Paul

  reply	other threads:[~2003-08-08 17:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-08-05 16:51 [PATCH] 2.6.0 NBD driver: remove send/recieve race for request Lou Langholtz
2003-08-05 19:37 ` Paul Clements
2003-08-05 22:48   ` Lou Langholtz
2003-08-06  0:51     ` Paul Clements
2003-08-06  7:34       ` Lou Langholtz
2003-08-08  5:02         ` Paul Clements
2003-08-08  5:27           ` Andrew Morton
2003-08-08 17:05             ` Paul Clements [this message]
2003-08-08  6:30           ` Lou Langholtz
2003-08-08  6:43             ` Andrew Morton
2003-08-08  6:59             ` Jens Axboe
2003-08-08 15:00               ` Paul Clements
2003-08-25  9:58                 ` Jens Axboe
2003-08-08 16:47             ` Paul Clements
2003-08-08 20:07               ` [PATCH 2.6.0-test2-mm] nbd: fix send/receive/shutdown/disconnect races Paul Clements
2003-08-09 22:10                 ` [PATCH 2.4.22-pre] nbd: fix race conditions Paul Clements

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