On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 11:30:44AM -0700, Roland Dreier wrote:
> static unsigned long flag;
>
> static int cw_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
> {
> return 0;
> }
>
> static int cw_close(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
> {
> clear_bit(1, &flag);
>
> msleep(1);
>
> if (test_and_set_bit(1, &flag))
> printk(KERN_ERR "Write raced with close?\n");
Of _course_ you can trigger that - just open two files and have write
on one of them while another gets closed.
That is certainly possible, but it has nothing whatsoever with the
race you've described - you have two different objects and method
call on one of them might happen when destructor is called on another.
You have protection against ->release() for a struct file called
while you are in ->write() for _same_ struct file.
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