On 09/11, Cedric Le Goater wrote:
>
> Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > Cedric Le Goater <[email protected]> writes:
> >
> >> message queues can signal a process waiting for a message.
> >>
> >> this patch replaces the pid_t value with a struct pid to avoid pid wrap
> >> around problems.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Cedric Le Goater <[email protected]>
> >> Cc: Eric Biederman <[email protected]>
> >> Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
> >> Cc: [email protected]
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Eric Biederman <[email protected]>
> >
> > I was just about to send out this patch in a couple more hours.
>
> Well, you did the same with the usb/devio.c and friends :)
>
> > So expect the fact we wrote the same code is a good sign :)
>
> How does oleg feel about it ? I've seen some long thread on possible race
> conditions with put_pid() and solutions with rcu. I didn't quite get all of
> it ... it will need another run for me.
I assume you are talking about this patch:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-mm-commits&m=115773820415171
I think it's ok, info->notify_owner is always used under info->lock.
This is simple. If, for example, mqueue_read_file() didn't take info->lock,
then we have a problem: pid_nr() may read a freed memory in case when
__do_notify()->put_pid() happens at the same time.
In this context info->notify_owner is a usual refcounted object, no special
attention is needed.
Oleg.
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