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From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
To: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Cc: Luis Henriques <lhenriques@suse.com>,
	Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@gmail.com>, Sage Weil <sage@redhat.com>,
	ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] ceph: fix buffer free while holding i_ceph_lock in __ceph_setxattr()
Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2019 00:23:08 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190719232307.GA17978@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1dee14212043f12ef5b26e4aee0c3155e118abf3.camel@kernel.org>

On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 07:07:49PM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote:

> Al pointed out on IRC that vfree should be callable under spinlock.

Al had been near-terminally low on caffeine at the time, posted
a retraction a few minutes later and went to grab some coffee...

> It
> only sleeps if !in_interrupt(), and I think that should return true if
> we're holding a spinlock.

It can be used from RCU callbacks and all such; it *can't* be used from
under spinlock - on non-preempt builds there's no way to recognize that.

  reply	other threads:[~2019-07-19 23:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-07-19 14:32 [PATCH 0/4] Sleeping functions in invalid context bug fixes Luis Henriques
2019-07-19 14:32 ` [PATCH 1/4] libceph: allow ceph_buffer_put() to receive a NULL ceph_buffer Luis Henriques
2019-07-19 14:32 ` [PATCH 2/4] ceph: fix buffer free while holding i_ceph_lock in __ceph_setxattr() Luis Henriques
2019-07-19 23:07   ` Jeff Layton
2019-07-19 23:23     ` Al Viro [this message]
2019-07-19 23:30       ` Al Viro
2019-07-20  0:35         ` Jeff Layton
2019-07-19 14:32 ` [PATCH 3/4] ceph: fix buffer free while holding i_ceph_lock in __ceph_build_xattrs_blob() Luis Henriques
2019-07-19 14:32 ` [PATCH 4/4] ceph: fix buffer free while holding i_ceph_lock in fill_inode() Luis Henriques
2019-07-19 15:20 ` [PATCH 0/4] Sleeping functions in invalid context bug fixes Jeff Layton
2019-07-23 10:02   ` Ilya Dryomov

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