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From: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
To: "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@microsoft.com>,
	Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, devel@linuxdriverproject.org,
	apw@canonical.com, vkuznets@redhat.com, jasowang@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] hv: kvp: use wrappers to propaigate state
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2015 12:18:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150921101826.GA4252@aepfle.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150921052625.GB24350@kroah.com>

On Sun, Sep 20, Greg KH wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 05:37:53PM -0700, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote:
> > @@ -122,8 +125,8 @@ static void kvp_timeout_func(struct work_struct *dummy)

> > +	if (kvp_get_state() > HVUTIL_READY)
> > +		kvp_set_state(HVUTIL_READY);

> And what if the state changed the line after this?  Oops, your code is
> hosed.  See, you need a lock, do this correctly.

KY,  can this happen?

Olaf

  reply	other threads:[~2015-09-21 10:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-16  0:37 [PATCH 0/5] Drivers: hv: Miscellaneous fixes K. Y. Srinivasan
2015-09-16  0:37 ` [PATCH 1/5] Drivers: hv: vmbus: fix init_vp_index() for reloading hv_netvsc K. Y. Srinivasan
2015-09-16  0:37   ` [PATCH 2/5] hv: add helpers to handle hv_util device state K. Y. Srinivasan
2015-09-21  5:25     ` Greg KH
2015-09-21 10:26       ` Olaf Hering
2015-09-21 11:25         ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2015-09-21 12:17           ` Olaf Hering
2015-09-21 13:37             ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2015-09-21 16:45             ` KY Srinivasan
2015-09-21 16:34         ` KY Srinivasan
2015-09-21 16:43           ` Greg KH
2015-09-21 17:00             ` KY Srinivasan
2015-09-16  0:37   ` [PATCH 3/5] hv: fcopy: use wrappers to propagate state K. Y. Srinivasan
2015-09-16  0:37   ` [PATCH 4/5] hv: kvp: use wrappers to propaigate state K. Y. Srinivasan
2015-09-21  5:26     ` Greg KH
2015-09-21 10:18       ` Olaf Hering [this message]
2015-09-21 16:31         ` KY Srinivasan
2015-09-21 16:16       ` KY Srinivasan
2015-09-16  0:37   ` [PATCH 5/5] hv: vss: use wrappers to propagate state K. Y. Srinivasan

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