linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] fix race in AF

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Message-Id: <E1I0CTH-0006k3-00@dorka.pomaz.szeredi.hu>
Date:	Mon, 18 Jun 2007 10:20:23 +0200
From:	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
To:	davem@...emloft.net
CC:	viro@....linux.org.uk, alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix race in AF_UNIX

> From: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
> Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 09:49:32 +0200
> 
> > Ping Dave,
> > 
> > Since there doesn't seem to be any new ideas forthcoming, can we
> > please decide on either one of my two sumbitted patches?
> 
> You just need to be patient, we can't just put a bad patch
> in because a better one has not been suggested yet :-)

And is anyone working on a better patch?

Those patches aren't "bad" in the correctness sense.  So IMO any one
of them is better, than having that bug in there.

Miklos
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