On Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 11:04:33AM -0400, John McCutchan wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 09:56 +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> > So what happens if
> > * something is holding inotify_sem right now
> > * ten threads call that on the same watch
> > * all of them get to down(&inode->inotify_sem); and block there,
> > having acquired ten references to the watch
> > * after whatever had been holding ->inotify_sem in the first place
> > releases it, they will one by one go through the rest of function. And
> > drop _20_ references to the watch. 9 of those - after we kfree() the
> > watch...
>
> In create_watch () we call get_inotify_watch (), which maps to the
> put_inotify_watch() in remove_watch(). As far as I can tell the ref
> counting is 1 for 1.
Or it would, if remove_watch() had been called only once. In the scenario
above that will not be true.
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