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SubjectRe: [PATCH] uevent: send events in correct order according to seqnum
On 03/07/2012 01:03 AM, Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 21:06, Andrew Vagin<avagin@openvz.org> wrote:
>>
>> The queue handling in the udev daemon assumes that the events are
>> ordered.
>>
>> Before this patch uevent_seqnum is incremented under sequence_lock,
>> than an event is send uner uevent_sock_mutex. I want to say that code
>> contained a window between incrementing seqnum and sending an event.
>>
>> This patch locks uevent_sock_mutex before incrementing uevent_seqnum.
>
> I think we can remove the spin_lock(&sequence_lock); entirely now, right?

I thought about that too. sequence_lock is used when CONFIG_NET isn't
defined. I've looked on this code one more time and we may leave only
uevent_sock_mutex and use it even when CONFIG_NET isn't defined.
Thanks for the comment.

Greg, do you have other objections about this patch?

>
> Also the section with:
> seq = ++uevent_seqnum;
> can just be:
> add_uevent_var(env, "SEQNUM=%llu", (unsigned long long) ++uevent_seqnum);
> right?
>
> And the:
> mutex_lock(&uevent_sock_mutex);
> can just move outside of the _NET ifdef and we always use the mutex
> instead of the spinlock?
>
> That could look much simpler than the current code, I think.
>
> Thanks,
> Kay



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