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

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Message-Id: <20070618.025945.123705241.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 18 Jun 2007 02:59:45 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	miklos@...redi.hu
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, 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 11:55:19 +0200

> It's doing trylocks and releasing all those locks within the same spin
> locked region, how the f**k can that deadlock?

The case I'm very concerned about is the interactions of your
new code with the unix_state_double_lock() stuff I added recently
to fix another bug.
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