linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/3] relay: Fix race condition which occurs when reading across CPUs.

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Date:	Fri, 13 Jun 2008 02:15:42 +0300
From:	Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@...ux360.ro>
To:	righi.andrea@...il.com
Cc:	tzanussi@...il.com, penberg@...helsinki.fi,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, compudj@...stal.dyndns.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] relay: Fix race condition which occurs when reading
 across CPUs.

On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:58:01 +0200 (MEST)
Andrea Righi <righi.andrea@...il.com> wrote:

> If you just break here buf->rw_lock will be unlocked twice. Maybe a
> better way is:
> 		if (desc->error < 0)
> 			goto out;
> 		...
>   	} while (desc->count && ret);
> 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&buf->rw_lock, flags);
> out:
>   	mutex_unlock(&filp->f_path.dentry->d_inode->i_mutex);
> 
>   	return desc->written;

Thanks, I did not notice. Will fix and resubmit.


	Eduard
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