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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: eric.dumazet@gmail.com
Cc: himeraster@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] AF_UNIX: Fix poll locking problem when reading from a stream socket
Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2011 16:35:15 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111126.163515.1110138680165158231.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1321939381.27077.7.camel@edumazet-laptop>

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 06:23:01 +0100

> Le mardi 22 novembre 2011 à 03:35 +0400, Alexey Moiseytsev a écrit :
>> poll() call may be locked by concurrent reading from the same stream
>> socket.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Alexey Moiseytsev <himeraster@gmail.com>
 ..
> Fine, the fix is technically correct since we own u->readlock mutex,
> another thread cannot consume the just requeued skb. 
> 
> Small note : the words "locking" and "locked" are more used to describe
> the action of taking a spinlock/mutex/rwlock or something, while the bug
> you fixed is more about poll() system call being blocked/frozen forever.
> 
> Thanks !
> 
> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>

Applied, with 'lock{ing,ed}' adjusted to 'block{ing,ed}'.

      reply	other threads:[~2011-11-26 21:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-21 23:35 [PATCH 1/1] AF_UNIX: Fix poll locking problem when reading from a stream socket Alexey Moiseytsev
2011-11-22  5:23 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-11-26 21:35   ` David Miller [this message]

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