From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: remi@remlab.net
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, remi.denis-courmont@nokia.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] Phonet: remove dangling pipe if an endpoint is closed early
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 21:32:58 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100915.213258.212397416.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1284589193-26089-1-git-send-email-remi@remlab.net>
From: Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi@remlab.net>
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 01:19:53 +0300
> From: Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi.denis-courmont@nokia.com>
>
> Closing a pipe endpoint is not normally allowed by the Phonet pipe,
> other than as a side after-effect of removing the pipe between two
> endpoints. But there is no way to prevent Linux userspace processes
> from being killed or suffering from bugs, so this can still happen.
> We might as well forcefully close Phonet pipe endpoints then.
>
> The cellular modem supports only a few existing pipes at a time. So we
> really should not leak them. This change instructs the modem to destroy
> the pipe if either of the pipe's endpoint (Linux socket) is closed too
> early.
>
> Signed-off-by: Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi.denis-courmont@nokia.com>
Applied.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-16 4:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-15 22:19 [PATCH net-next-2.6] Phonet: remove dangling pipe if an endpoint is closed early Rémi Denis-Courmont
2010-09-16 4:32 ` David Miller [this message]
2010-09-16 4:35 ` David Miller
2010-09-16 4:41 ` Rémi Denis-Courmont
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