Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [patch, lock validator] fix uidhash_lock <-> RCU deadlock | From | Daniel Walker <> | Date | Wed, 25 Jan 2006 08:59:37 -0800 |
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On Wed, 2006-01-25 at 15:23 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > RCU task-struct freeing can call free_uid(), which is taking > uidhash_lock - while other users of uidhash_lock are softirq-unsafe. > > This bug was found by the lock validator i'm working on:
What is it doing exactly ?
Daniel
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