On Thursday 03 August 2006 11:46, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> Core files.
>
> This patch includes core kevent files:
> - userspace controlling
> - kernelspace interfaces
> - initialization
> - notification state machines
>
> +static int kevent_user_wait(struct file *file, struct kevent_user *u,
> + unsigned int min_nr, unsigned int max_nr, unsigned int timeout,
> + void __user *buf)
> +{
>
> + mutex_lock(&u->ctl_mutex);
> + while (num < max_nr && ((k = kqueue_dequeue_ready(u)) != NULL)) {
> + if (copy_to_user(buf + num*sizeof(struct ukevent),
> + &k->event, sizeof(struct ukevent))) {
> + cerr = -EINVAL;
> + break;
> + }
It seems quite wrong to hold ctl_mutex while doing a copy_to_user() (of
possibly a large amount of data) : A thread can sleep on a page fault and
other threads cannot make progress.
Eric
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