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SubjectRe: [PATCH v5 0/4] [SCSI] sg: fix race condition in sg_open
On Mon, 22 July 2013 12:40:29 +0800, Vaughan Cao wrote:
>
> There is a race when open sg with O_EXCL flag. Also a race may happen between
> sg_open and sg_remove.
>
> Changes from v4:
> * [3/4] use ERR_PTR series instead of adding another parameter in sg_add_sfp
> * [4/4] fix conflict for cherry-pick from v3.
>
> Changes from v3:
> * release o_sem in sg_release(), not in sg_remove_sfp().
> * not set exclude with sfd_lock held.
>
> Vaughan Cao (4):
> [SCSI] sg: use rwsem to solve race during exclusive open
> [SCSI] sg: no need sg_open_exclusive_lock
> [SCSI] sg: checking sdp->detached isn't protected when open
> [SCSI] sg: push file descriptor list locking down to per-device
> locking
>
> drivers/scsi/sg.c | 178 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------------------
> 1 file changed, 83 insertions(+), 95 deletions(-)

Patchset looks good to me, although I didn't test it on hardware yet.
Signed-off-by: Joern Engel <joern@logfs.org>

James, care to pick this up?

Jörn

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