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From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>,
	Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipc: introduce ipc_valid_object() helper to sort out IPC_RMID races
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 14:31:35 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <52B0A697.7040009@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e70c06876f986f0ac7f2f104bab50edff4a524a0.1387302999.git.aquini@redhat.com>

On 12/17/2013 02:03 PM, Rafael Aquini wrote:
> After the locking semantics for the SysV IPC API got improved, a couple of
> IPC_RMID race windows were opened because we ended up dropping the
> 'kern_ipc_perm.deleted' check performed way down in ipc_lock().
> The spotted races got sorted out by re-introducing the old test within
> the racy critical sections.
> 
> This patch introduces ipc_valid_object() to consolidate the way we cope with
> IPC_RMID races by using the same abstraction across the API implementation.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com>

Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>


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  reply	other threads:[~2013-12-17 19:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-12-17 19:03 [PATCH] ipc: introduce ipc_valid_object() helper to sort out IPC_RMID races Rafael Aquini
2013-12-17 19:31 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2013-12-17 20:41 ` Greg Thelen
2013-12-17 21:27 ` Davidlohr Bueso
2013-12-17 21:46   ` Rafael Aquini
2013-12-17 22:18     ` Davidlohr Bueso
2013-12-17 22:50       ` Rafael Aquini
2013-12-17 23:28 ` [PATCH v2] " Rafael Aquini
2013-12-18 12:11   ` Manfred Spraul
2013-12-18 12:51     ` Rafael Aquini
2013-12-18 13:12       ` Rafael Aquini
2013-12-18 15:46       ` Davidlohr Bueso
2013-12-18 15:53         ` Rafael Aquini
2013-12-18 17:34         ` Rafael Aquini
2013-12-18 19:00           ` Manfred Spraul
2013-12-18 20:33 ` [PATCH v3] " Rafael Aquini
2013-12-19  0:38   ` Davidlohr Bueso
2013-12-19  0:42     ` Rafael Aquini

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