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From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
	Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>,
	Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>,
	Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] core/nfsd: allow kernel threads to use task_work.
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2023 15:20:18 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20231128142018.GA24108@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20231128140156.GC22743@redhat.com>

On 11/28, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>
> On a related note... Neil, Al, et al, can you look at
>
> 	[PATCH 1/3] fput: don't abuse task_work_add() when possible
> 	https://lore.kernel.org/all/20150908171446.GA14589@redhat.com/

Cough... Now that I look at this 8 years old patch again I think
it is wrong, fput() can race with task_work_cancel() so it is not
safe to dereference the first pending work in theory :/

Oleg.


  reply	other threads:[~2023-11-28 14:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-11-27 22:05 [PATCH/RFC] core/nfsd: allow kernel threads to use task_work NeilBrown
2023-11-27 22:30 ` Al Viro
2023-11-27 22:43   ` NeilBrown
2023-11-27 22:59 ` Chuck Lever
2023-11-28  0:16   ` NeilBrown
2023-11-28  1:37     ` Chuck Lever
2023-11-28  2:57       ` NeilBrown
2023-11-28 15:34         ` Chuck Lever
2023-11-30 17:50           ` Jeff Layton
2023-11-28 13:51     ` Christian Brauner
2023-11-28 14:15       ` Jeff Layton
2023-11-28 15:22         ` Chuck Lever
2023-11-28 23:31         ` NeilBrown
2023-11-28 23:20       ` NeilBrown
2023-11-29 11:43         ` Christian Brauner
2023-12-04  1:30           ` NeilBrown
2023-11-29 14:04         ` Chuck Lever
2023-11-30 17:47           ` Jeff Layton
2023-11-30 18:07             ` Chuck Lever
2023-11-30 18:33               ` Jeff Layton
2023-11-28 11:24 ` Christian Brauner
2023-11-28 13:52   ` Oleg Nesterov
2023-11-28 15:33     ` Christian Brauner
2023-11-28 16:59       ` Oleg Nesterov
2023-11-28 17:29         ` Oleg Nesterov
2023-11-28 23:40           ` NeilBrown
2023-11-29 11:38           ` Christian Brauner
2023-11-28 14:01 ` Oleg Nesterov
2023-11-28 14:20   ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2023-11-29  0:14   ` NeilBrown
2023-11-29  7:55     ` Oleg Nesterov

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