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SubjectRe: [PATCH 5/7] FUSE: implement ioctl support
Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Aug 2008, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> Tejun Heo wrote:
>>> Ah.... funky. If this retry thing is too repulsive, I guess the best
>>> alternative would be directly accessing caller's memory as Miklos suggested.
>>>
>> Be careful -- there are some serious dragons there in the presence of
>> multiple threads.
>
> OK, it should map /proc/pid/task/tid/mem. Or rather
> /proc/tid/task/tid/mem, as the pid (tgid) of the caller is not
> currently passed to the filesystem.
>

Uhm, no. You can still have it change underneath you as long as you
have any thread of execution with access to the same memory.

This is *hard* to get right, and we screw this up in the kernel with
painful regularity. The throught of having user-space processes, which
don't have access to the kernel locking primitives and functions like
copy_from_user() dealing with this stuff scares me crazy.

That is why I'm suggesting using an in-kernel linearizer.

-hpa


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