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
next prev parent 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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