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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: jarkao2@gmail.com
Cc: f6bvp@free.fr, ralf@linux-mips.org, adobriyan@gmail.com,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][ROSE][AX25] af_ax25: possible circular locking
Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2007 21:00:57 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071230.210057.139323937.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071230141323.GA3377@ami.dom.local>

From: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2007 15:13:23 +0100

> On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 07:14:43PM -0800, David Miller wrote:
> ...
> "again" loop should skip this entry next time: s->ax25_dev should
> be NULL, so not equal to ax25dev. (But of course there could be
> this unknown to me place, which changes this back in the meantime.)

Indeed you are right.

> > You'll thus need to resolve this locking conflict more properly.
> > I know it's hard, but your current fix is worse because it adds
> > a new known bug.
> 
> Sorry, it seems this will've to wait until Ralf finds some time,
> because I really can't give this more time, considering I never
> used nor have any plans to use this code, and this bug could
> suggest there is not so many interested in this, besides Bernard,
> either.

I'll try to look at this.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-12-31  5:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-17 10:06 [ROSE] [AX25] possible circular locking Bernard Pidoux F6BVP
2007-12-18 13:52 ` Jarek Poplawski
     [not found]   ` <476837BF.3070207@free.fr>
2007-12-18 22:04     ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-12-28 21:30   ` Pidoux
     [not found]   ` <47755FDB.2070501@free.fr>
2007-12-28 21:48     ` [PATCH][ROSE][AX25] af_ax25: " Jarek Poplawski
2007-12-30  3:14       ` David Miller
2007-12-30 14:13         ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-12-31  5:00           ` David Miller [this message]
2008-01-11  5:22           ` David Miller
2008-01-11  9:40             ` Jarek Poplawski
2008-01-12 19:48               ` Bernard Pidoux F6BVP
2008-01-11 21:40             ` [PATCH] [ROSE] two extra tab characters removed Bernard Pidoux F6BVP
2008-02-09 18:44   ` [PATCH][AX25] ax25_ds_timer: use mod_timer instead of add_timer Bernard Pidoux F6BVP
2008-02-09 19:39     ` Jarek Poplawski
2008-02-10 18:07       ` Bernard Pidoux F6BVP
2008-02-09 23:50     ` [PATCH][AX25] af_ax25: remove sock lock in ax25_info_show() Jarek Poplawski
2008-02-10 13:10     ` [PATCH v2][AX25] " Jarek Poplawski
2008-02-12  5:25       ` David Miller

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