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SubjectRe: Q: check_unsafe_exec() races (Was: [PATCH 2/4] fix setuid sometimes doesn't)


On Tue, 21 Apr 2009, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>
> OK, I agree, it doesn't really matter from latency/etc pov.
>
> But still I can't understand why it is better to take fs->lock under
> RCU lock. I mean, "fs->lock is the innermost lock" should not apply
> to rcu_read_lock(). Because the latter is a bit special, no?

Oh, I don't think it matters. If you want to put the RCU read-lock
innermost, that's fine by me. I just reacted to your latency argument as
not being very strong :)

All I personally want is a patch that everybody can agree on, and that
has sane semantics.

Linus


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