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From: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
To: Gi-Oh Kim <gi-oh.kim@profitbricks.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Noam Rathaus <noamr@beyondsecurity.com>,
	Sean Hefty <sean.hefty@intel.com>,
	Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>,
	Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>,
	linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] infiniband: fix a possible use-after-free bug
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2018 09:30:34 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAM_iQpV2PJZUQEcXh=TpHRZzLEqGLDAQ1j1_ibPY_kNfbWoAEQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJX1YtZNdwiwPmj5gGTqURjvLqa5g7Ly_h+TEZfNJSW=mrqRiQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Jun 4, 2018 at 9:23 AM, Gi-Oh Kim <gi-oh.kim@profitbricks.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Your patch is reasonable to me.
> Can I ask a question for that?
> Could it be solved by asymmetric locking as following?

Maybe, if you are sure taking file->mut is safe in that place.

Can you double check atomic_inc_not_zero(&mc->ctx->ref)?
I am too far away from familiar with infiniband. ;)

  reply	other threads:[~2018-06-04 16:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-06-01 18:31 [PATCH] infiniband: fix a possible use-after-free bug Cong Wang
2018-06-04 16:23 ` Gi-Oh Kim
2018-06-04 16:30   ` Cong Wang [this message]
2018-06-04 16:46   ` Jason Gunthorpe
2018-06-04 16:52     ` Gi-Oh Kim
2018-06-04 16:42 ` Jason Gunthorpe

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