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On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 10:41:24AM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > This patch fixes a race found by Ram in mark_mounts_for_expiry() in > The solution is to make the atomic_read() and the get_namespace() into > a single atomic operation. The patch does this in a fairly ugly way > (see comment above fix), which should be safe regardless. That it certainly is. What's more, there is a trivial way to deal with that crap - have put_namespace() do atomic_dec_and_lock() instead of atomic_dec_and_test(). And use the same spinlock (vfsmount_lock would be an obvious choice) to protect the atomicity here. End of story. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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