linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.23-rc6-mm1: IPC: sleeping function called ...

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Date:	Fri, 21 Sep 2007 11:18:53 +0200
From:	Nadia Derbey <Nadia.Derbey@...l.net>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...ru>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.23-rc6-mm1: IPC: sleeping function called ...

Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 16:55:19 +0200 Nadia Derbey <Nadia.Derbey@...l.net> wrote:
> 
> 
>>This patch fixes the missing rcu_read_(un)lock in the ipc code
> 
> 
> Thanks.  Could you please check the code comments in ipc/util.c for
> accuracy and completeness sometime?
> 

Done - see attachment.
Hope I didn't forget / add some wrong stuff ;-)
BTW this patch also fixes a missing lock in shm_get_stat().

Regards,
Nadia

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