From: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
To: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] Fix epoll delayed initialization bug ...
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 16:59:02 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52hdckk1ix.fsf@cisco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0509161621050.6125@localhost.localdomain> (Davide Libenzi's message of "Fri, 16 Sep 2005 16:35:34 -0700 (PDT)")
Davide> Al found a potential problem in epoll_create(), where the
Davide> file->private_data member was set after fd_install(). This is
Davide> obviously wrong since another thread might do a close() on
Davide> that fd# before we set the file->private_data member. This
Davide> goes over 2.6.13 and passes a few basic tests I've done here.
Actually, I found the problem after Al pointed out a similar bug in my code ;)
- R.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-16 23:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-16 23:35 [patch] Fix epoll delayed initialization bug Davide Libenzi
2005-09-16 23:50 ` Andrew Morton
2005-09-16 23:56 ` Davide Libenzi
2005-09-17 0:05 ` Andrew Morton
2005-09-17 2:37 ` Paul Jackson
2005-09-16 23:59 ` Roland Dreier [this message]
2005-09-17 5:47 ` Al Viro
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