linux-kernel - Re: [RESEND] file operations: release can race with read/write?

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Message-ID: <adabqaxgzpf.fsf@cisco.com>
Date:	Wed, 17 Oct 2007 15:10:04 -0700
From:	Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com>
To:	Al Viro <viro@....linux.org.uk>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RESEND] file operations: release can race with read/write?

 > Of _course_ you can trigger that - just open two files and have write
 > on one of them while another gets closed.

Right, thanks for the explanation.

 - R.
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