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From: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
To: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-aio@kvack.org,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Fix lock inversion aio_kick_handler()
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 19:02:23 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44CAC1AF.6010505@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060729013446.GA3387@kvack.org>

Benjamin LaHaise wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 05:10:32PM -0700, Zach Brown wrote:
>> Fix lock inversion aio_kick_handler()
> 
> Doh.  Unfortunately, this patch isn't entirely correct as it could race with 
> __put_ioctx() which sets ioctx->mm = NULL.

Aha, yeah, that's what I was missing.  Thanks.

> Something like the following should do the trick:

Cool, I'll respin and send it out.

- z

  reply	other threads:[~2006-07-29  2:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-29  0:10 [RFC][PATCH] Fix lock inversion aio_kick_handler() Zach Brown
2006-07-29  1:34 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2006-07-29  2:02   ` Zach Brown [this message]
2006-11-09 22:41     ` Jeff Moyer
2006-11-09 22:51       ` Zach Brown
2006-11-09 22:57         ` Jeff Moyer

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