From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Cc: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman),
Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>,
Benjamin Thery <benjamin.thery@bull.net>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>,
Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>,
Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com>,
"Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com>,
Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/11] avoid kobject name conflict with different namespaces
Date: Fri, 09 May 2008 11:16:10 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1ve1nbaxh.fsf@frodo.ebiederm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080509073556.3c342d14@gondolin.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> (Cornelia Huck's message of "Fri, 9 May 2008 07:35:56 +0200")
Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> writes:
> On Thu, 08 May 2008 12:28:19 -0700,
> ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) wrote:
>
>> Do you remember if we have ever sorted out the race between _move
>> and module unload/directory teardown at the sysfs level?
>
> Unfortunately I can't remember anything about this, do you have a
> pointer to the original discussion?
Ok the conversation was:
"[Bluez-devel] Oops involving RFCOMM and sysfs"
http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/12/28/87
Following the thread through it appears the bug was fixed
and it wasn't the race Al Viro was concerned about.
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/1/9/59
And it looks like all of the symptoms have been corrected.
Yeah!
Which implies to me that kobject_move has the same locking
restrictions that kobject_rename has. I.e. the upper level
better do what it takes to make the operation safe.
Which says that at least for now not worrying about the locking
between sysfs_move_dir/sysfs_rename_dir and sysfs_remove_dir is ok.
As we require the upper levels not to do that.
Which says that we may be able to figure out how to merge
sysfs_move_dir and sysfs_rename_dir. It is still a nasty business
though.
Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-09 18:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-06 17:30 [RESEND][PATCH 00/11] sysfs tagged directories Benjamin Thery
2008-05-06 17:30 ` [PATCH 01/11] sysfs: Support for preventing unmounts Benjamin Thery
2008-05-06 17:30 ` [PATCH 02/11] sysfs: sysfs_get_dentry add a sb parameter Benjamin Thery
2008-05-06 17:31 ` [PATCH 03/11] sysfs: Implement __sysfs_get_dentry Benjamin Thery
2008-05-06 17:31 ` [PATCH 04/11] sysfs: Rename Support multiple superblocks Benjamin Thery
2008-05-06 17:31 ` [PATCH 05/11] sysfs: sysfs_chmod_file handle " Benjamin Thery
2008-05-06 17:31 ` [PATCH 06/11] sysfs: Implement sysfs tagged directory support Benjamin Thery
2008-05-06 17:31 ` [PATCH 07/11] sysfs: Implement sysfs_delete_link and sysfs_rename_link Benjamin Thery
2008-05-06 17:31 ` [PATCH 08/11] driver core: Implement tagged directory support for device classes Benjamin Thery
2008-05-06 17:32 ` [PATCH 09/11] netns: Enable tagging for net_class directories in sysfs Benjamin Thery
2008-05-06 17:32 ` [PATCH 10/11] avoid kobject name conflict with different namespaces Benjamin Thery
2008-05-07 18:49 ` Eric W. Biederman
2008-05-07 19:08 ` Greg KH
2008-05-07 20:54 ` Eric W. Biederman
2008-05-08 8:28 ` Cornelia Huck
2008-05-08 19:28 ` Eric W. Biederman
2008-05-09 5:35 ` Cornelia Huck
2008-05-09 18:16 ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2008-05-08 19:25 ` Eric W. Biederman
2008-05-08 21:30 ` [PATCH] wireless: Add missing locking to cfg80211_dev_rename Eric W. Biederman
2008-05-08 22:12 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2008-05-08 22:18 ` Johannes Berg
2008-05-08 21:41 ` [PATCH] Fix kobject_rename and !CONFIG_SYSFS Eric W. Biederman
2008-05-12 22:02 ` kobject: " Greg KH
2008-05-13 7:00 ` Eric W. Biederman
2008-05-13 14:25 ` Benjamin Thery
2008-05-13 16:44 ` Greg KH
2008-05-13 17:55 ` [PATCH] Fix kobject_rename and !CONFIG_SYSFS v2 Eric W. Biederman
2008-05-13 18:23 ` Randy.Dunlap
2008-05-13 20:43 ` Eric W. Biederman
2008-05-13 20:16 ` Greg KH
2008-05-13 20:45 ` [PATCH] Fix kobject_rename and !CONFIG_SYSFS v3 Eric W. Biederman
2008-05-13 21:18 ` Randy Dunlap
2008-05-14 4:39 ` [PATCH] Fix kobject_rename and !CONFIG_SYSFS v4 Eric W. Biederman
2008-05-14 5:03 ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-14 9:01 ` Eric W. Biederman
2008-05-14 9:20 ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-14 9:51 ` Benjamin Thery
2008-05-14 9:56 ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-13 19:33 ` kobject: Fix kobject_rename and !CONFIG_SYSFS Benjamin Thery
2008-05-13 20:42 ` Eric W. Biederman
2008-05-06 17:32 ` [PATCH 11/11] sysfs: user namespaces: add ns to user_struct Benjamin Thery
2008-05-06 19:03 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2008-05-06 17:53 ` [RESEND][PATCH 00/11] sysfs tagged directories Greg KH
2008-05-06 18:41 ` Benjamin Thery
2008-05-07 13:19 ` Daniel Lezcano
2008-05-07 13:47 ` Benjamin Thery
2008-05-14 15:07 ` Benjamin Thery
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