Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 19 Sep 2010 23:09:38 -0400 | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] mm: further fix swapin race condition |
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On 09/19/2010 10:40 PM, Hugh Dickins wrote: > Commit 4969c1192d15afa3389e7ae3302096ff684ba655 "mm: fix swapin race condition" > is now agreed to be incomplete. There's a race, not very much less likely > than the original race envisaged, in which it is further necessary to check > that the swapcache page's swap has not changed.
> B ought to have checked that page1's swap was still swap1. > > Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins<hughd@google.com> > Cc: stable@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
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