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From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
To: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
Cc: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>,
	lksctp-developers@lists.sourceforge.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sctp: lock_sock_nested in sctp_sock_migrate
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 13:24:00 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46802460.3080303@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46802477.5030005@hp.com>

Vlad Yasevich wrote:
> Hm... This is another case of of two different sockets taking the same lock...
> 
> Arjan,  did this every get fixed, or is the nested locking the right solution
> to this?
> 

for this specific case it's ok and the nested solution is right.
In the general case it's obviously not safe to take the locks of two 
sockets in "unspecified" order....

  reply	other threads:[~2007-06-25 20:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-22 22:14 [PATCH] sctp: lock_sock_nested in sctp_sock_migrate Zach Brown
2007-06-25 20:24 ` Vlad Yasevich
2007-06-25 20:24   ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2007-06-25 20:38     ` Vlad Yasevich

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