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DateFri, 7 Jul 2006 15:26:52 +0200
FromJens Axboe <>
SubjectRe: splice/tee bugs?
On Fri, Jul 07 2006, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> 
> > I cannot see where this could be happening, Ingo is this valid?
> 
> maybe the test found a way to exit the kernel previously while holding
> the lock ?

I don't see how that could happen. The function in question is
fs/splice.c:link_pipe(). There are no returns in that function, it
always just breaks out and unlocks the two mutexes again.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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