On 27/11/17(Mon) 19:32, Mathieu - wrote:
> Martin Pieuchot wrote:
> > On 27/11/17(Mon) 11:49, Mathieu - wrote:
> > > Hi everyone,
> > >
> > > I was looking / poking around the filedesc handling in kern_descrip.c
> > > and found the locking a bit.. weird,
> >
> > Can you define "weird"? Is it a t
On 27/11/17(Mon) 11:49, Mathieu - wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I was looking / poking around the filedesc handling in kern_descrip.c
> and found the locking a bit.. weird,
Can you define "weird"? Is it a taste thing or did you find any bug?
If it's a bug how can you reproduce it?
>
Hi everyone,
I was looking / poking around the filedesc handling in kern_descrip.c
and found the locking a bit.. weird, especially the fd_getfile function
is touching protected members of the filedesc w/o taking any lock.
This has been already hit previously in [1] and fixed by reordering the
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