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Message-ID: <4CD9B07E.70502@fusionio.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2010 21:35:10 +0100
From: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@...ionio.com>
To: "paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
CC: Daniel J Blueman <daniel.blueman@...il.com>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [2.6.37-rc1] sys_ioprio_set and RCU locking...
On 2010-11-08 14:55, Jens Axboe wrote:
>>>>> Take the RCU lock for read across acquiring the pointer to the task
>>>>> credentials and dereferencing it.
>>>>
>>>> Jens, does this look sane?
>>>
>>> Yes, looks clean enough to me.
>>
>> Very good! Are you willing to take the patch in your tree?
>
> Certainly, I'm in the middle of patch monkeying now anyway. Will queue
> it up.
The patch was buggy, I discovered that it does not do the proper
RCU unlock if we fail the uid match. Merged version here:
http://git.kernel.dk/?p=linux-2.6-block.git;a=commit;h=1a882abdbf9579ad0e5655f928e4ede30db301e6
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Jens Axboe
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