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From:   Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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On Thu, 9 Dec 2021 12:11:12 -0800
Beau Belgrave <beaub@linux.microsoft.com> wrote:

> I guess I am being paranoid about an architecture that does not have
> automatic cache consistency and while the write / read don't happen at
> the exact time, they happen close together. Close enough that one CPU
> reads the old value from a cache line and gets it wrong.
> 
> I don't believe that is possible on Intel, but I don't know if it's
> possible on other architectures (especially older ones).

If this was possible, then there would be a lot more bugs out there than
this one. For one thing, the file descriptor itself would be freed while
accessed.

-- Steve