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From: Christian Schoenebeck <qemu_oss@crudebyte.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: Will Cohen <wwcohen@gmail.com>,
	Keno Fischer <keno@juliacomputing.com>,
	Michael Roitzsch <reactorcontrol@icloud.com>,
	hi@alyssa.is, Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 04/11] 9p: darwin: Handle struct dirent differences
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2022 16:48:00 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <12546246.2XztgVCrSq@silver> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAB26zV0T+mwNCDt9fYKy5hkV=8dnA=CFcu8K5X6Lo+WhFtEO2Q@mail.gmail.com>

On Donnerstag, 27. Januar 2022 22:48:02 CET Will Cohen wrote:
> If acceptable, we'd still propose leaving these changes as is for
> expediency's sake, rather than using our dirent and then translating it all
> to save one read from the FS layer.

The problem is V9fsFidState *fidp is a shared resource that might become 
mutated by other threads in between and could therefore lead to concurrency 
issues and undefined behaviour, whereas struct dirent is a local resource not 
being shared.

See also BTW:
https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/20220127212734.218900-1-vt@altlinux.org/

Best regards,
Christian Schoenebeck




  reply	other threads:[~2022-01-28 16:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-11-22  0:49 [PATCH v2 00/11] 9p: Add support for darwin Will Cohen
2021-11-22  0:49 ` [PATCH v2 01/11] 9p: linux: Fix a couple Linux assumptions Will Cohen
2021-11-24 12:41   ` Christian Schoenebeck
2021-11-22  0:49 ` [PATCH v2 02/11] 9p: Rename 9p-util -> 9p-util-linux Will Cohen
2021-11-22  0:49 ` [PATCH v2 03/11] 9p: darwin: Handle struct stat(fs) differences Will Cohen
2021-11-24 14:23   ` Christian Schoenebeck
2021-12-01 22:46     ` Will Cohen
2021-12-02 15:35       ` Christian Schoenebeck
2021-11-22  0:49 ` [PATCH v2 04/11] 9p: darwin: Handle struct dirent differences Will Cohen
2021-11-24 14:58   ` Christian Schoenebeck
2021-11-24 15:45     ` Michael Roitzsch
2021-11-24 19:09       ` Christian Schoenebeck
2022-01-27 21:48         ` Will Cohen
2022-01-28 15:48           ` Christian Schoenebeck [this message]
2021-11-22  0:49 ` [PATCH v2 05/11] 9p: darwin: Ignore O_{NOATIME, DIRECT} Will Cohen
2021-11-22  0:49 ` [PATCH v2 06/11] 9p: darwin: Compatibility defn for XATTR_SIZE_MAX Will Cohen
2021-11-24 15:44   ` Christian Schoenebeck
2021-11-22  0:49 ` [PATCH v2 07/11] 9p: darwin: *xattr_nofollow implementations Will Cohen
2021-11-22  0:49 ` [PATCH v2 08/11] 9p: darwin: Compatibility for f/l*xattr Will Cohen
2021-11-24 16:20   ` Christian Schoenebeck
2022-01-27 21:47     ` Will Cohen
2021-11-22  0:49 ` [PATCH v2 09/11] 9p: darwin: Provide fallback impl for utimensat Will Cohen
2021-11-24 17:07   ` Christian Schoenebeck
2021-11-22  0:49 ` [PATCH v2 10/11] 9p: darwin: Implement compatibility for mknodat Will Cohen
2021-11-24 17:20   ` Christian Schoenebeck
2022-01-27 21:47     ` Will Cohen
2022-01-28 15:15       ` Christian Schoenebeck
2022-01-28 18:28         ` Will Cohen
2022-01-31 22:26           ` Will Cohen
2022-02-01 12:44             ` Christian Schoenebeck
2021-11-22  0:49 ` [PATCH v2 11/11] 9p: darwin: meson: Allow VirtFS on Darwin Will Cohen

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