linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] eCryptFS: fix missed mutex

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Date:	Wed, 21 May 2008 13:33:29 +0400
From:	"Cyrill Gorcunov" <gorcunov@...il.com>
To:	"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	"Michael A. Halcrow" <mhalcrow@...ibm.com>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] eCryptFS: fix missed mutex_unlock

On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 12:02 PM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> wrote:
>
> * Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com> wrote:
>
>> Ingo, could you please apply it and test? Actually I really doubt if
>> it help with the locking problem you pointed. There are two procedures
>> in miscrev.c - ecryptfs_miscdev_poll() and ecryptfs_miscdev_read()
>> which takes/releases mutexes in a bit strange way... investigating,
>> but this patch is needed anyway.
>
> btw., i didnt do any specific ecryptfs testing - randconfig enabled it
> and it got booted. So if you dont get the warning during
> bootup/module-load, you'll have the same test coverage i did.
>
>        Ingo
>

oh, thanks ;)
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