From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: avolkov@ispras.ru
Cc: isdn@linux-pingi.de, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ldv-project@linuxtesting.org,
khoroshilov@ispras.ru
Subject: Re: [PATCH] hysdn: fix to a race condition in put_log_buffer
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2017 17:22:28 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170731.172228.890883127209209563.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fd42b4de-416a-4e1b-046a-378aa66f7486@ispras.ru>
From: Anton Volkov <avolkov@ispras.ru>
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2017 17:53:51 +0300
> The synchronization type that was used earlier to guard the loop that
> deletes unused log buffers may have lead to a situation that prevents
> any thread from going through the loop.
>
> The patch deletes previously used synchronization mechanism and moves
> the loop under the spin_lock so the similar cases won't be feasible in
> the future.
>
> Found by by Linux Driver Verification project (linuxtesting.org).
>
> Signed-off-by: Anton Volkov <avolkov@ispras.ru>
This patch doesn't apply at all.
It's probably been corrupted by your email client.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-08-01 0:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-07-27 16:19 Possible race in hysdn.ko Anton Volkov
2017-07-28 4:46 ` isdn
2017-07-28 14:53 ` [PATCH] hysdn: fix to a race condition in put_log_buffer Anton Volkov
2017-08-01 0:22 ` David Miller [this message]
2017-08-03 11:33 ` Anton Volkov
2017-08-03 12:03 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2017-08-07 12:54 ` [PATCH v2] " Anton Volkov
2017-08-07 18:25 ` David Miller
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