Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 16 Mar 2000 03:42:06 -0500 (EST) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: do_mmap: locking |
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On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Manfred Spraul wrote:
> The last time I checked, do_mmap() must be called after down(&mmap_sem); > > * the new ipc code doesn't acquire the mmap semaphore.
Not to me - I didn't look through that code yet. And I already got two pending patches on hands...
> * Al, IIRC you agreed that the library functions in fs/binfmt_?? must > acquire the mmap semaphore as well. > Could you do that, or should I send you a patch?
Ouch. OK, I'll resurrect the patchlet that made exec.c stuff to pass struct file * instead of fd (into the ->load_library(), that is) and that will go there too. Crap... That's the third one. Oh, well...
Al, muttering swearwords and with some horror waiting for description of reiserfs internal locking. They may very well turn out as sucky as AFFS in that respect...
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