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From: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	fbl@redhat.com, nhorman@redhat.com, davem@redhat.com,
	oleg@redhat.com, eric.dumazet@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: fix race in the receive/select
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 10:44:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090701084430.GC4769@jolsa.lab.eng.brq.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090701083144.GA31863@gondor.apana.org.au>

On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 04:31:44PM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 09:22:26AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> >
> > Agreed.
> > 
> > I suspect the reordering of the wake queue tests might makes a difference, but
> > in this case to ensure they are always tested in the proper order by
> > the compiler would need more smp_rmb()s
> 
> I just looked up the original bug report and it's against RHEL4
> which is a 2.6.9 kernel.  Jiri, have we reproduced this on a more
> recent kernel?

no, only RHEL 4.. 

it is very hard to reproduce. I was succesfull once
on RHEL4 after 8 days, never on upstream though.

jirka

> 
> Thanks,
> -- 
> Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/
> Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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  reply	other threads:[~2009-07-01  8:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-25 12:25 [PATCH] net: fix race in the receive/select Jiri Olsa
2009-06-25 12:24 ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-06-26  1:31   ` Davide Libenzi
2009-06-26  1:59     ` Eric Dumazet
2009-06-26  2:04       ` Davide Libenzi
2009-06-26  2:11         ` David Miller
2009-06-26  2:19         ` Eric Dumazet
2009-06-26  3:14           ` Davide Libenzi
2009-06-26  5:42             ` Jarek Poplawski
2009-06-26  8:10               ` Jarek Poplawski
2009-06-26 13:57             ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-06-26 17:32               ` Davide Libenzi
2009-06-26 14:50                 ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-06-26 18:12                   ` Davide Libenzi
2009-06-26 18:17                     ` David Miller
2009-06-26 19:35                       ` Eric Dumazet
2009-06-29  9:34                         ` Jiri Olsa
2009-06-28 11:10                   ` Jarek Poplawski
2009-06-28 11:22                     ` Jarek Poplawski
2009-06-28 18:04                       ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-06-28 21:48                         ` Jarek Poplawski
2009-06-29  9:27                           ` Jiri Olsa
2009-06-26 13:46           ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-06-25 23:18 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-06-26  1:50 ` Tejun Heo
2009-06-29  9:12 ` Andi Kleen
2009-06-29  9:24   ` Jiri Olsa
2009-06-29 16:59   ` Zan Lynx
2009-06-29 17:29     ` Andi Kleen
2009-07-01  3:39   ` Herbert Xu
2009-07-01  6:27     ` Andi Kleen
2009-07-01  7:03       ` Herbert Xu
2009-07-01  7:22         ` Andi Kleen
2009-07-01  8:31           ` Herbert Xu
2009-07-01  8:44             ` Jiri Olsa [this message]
2009-07-01 10:58               ` Herbert Xu
2009-07-01 13:07                 ` Herbert Xu

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