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From: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk
To: "Mika Penttilä" <mika.penttila@kolumbus.fi>
Cc: Dave Peterson <dsp@llnl.gov>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: possible race condition in vfs code
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 00:03:16 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030429230316.GR10374@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3EAF01FE.2040600@kolumbus.fi>

On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 01:51:42AM +0300, Mika Penttilä wrote:
> That piece of code looks wrong in other ways also..if we have unmounted 
> an active fs (which shouldn't be done but happens!) we shouldn't be at 
> least writing back to it anything! The !sb test isn't useful (we never 
> clear it in live inodes) and MS_ACTIVE handling is racy as hell wrt 
> umount...

Would you mind actually _reading_ kill_super() and stuff called by it?

  reply	other threads:[~2003-04-29 22:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-04-15 16:22 possible race condition in vfs code Dave Peterson
2003-04-29 22:51 ` Mika Penttilä
2003-04-29 23:03   ` viro [this message]
2003-04-30  6:52     ` Mika Penttilä

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