linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/5] um: Use __i386__ in ifdef for vsyscall exports, not SUBARCH

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Message-ID: <20110810174432.GN2203@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Date:	Wed, 10 Aug 2011 18:44:32 +0100
From:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
To:	richard -rw- weinberger <richard.weinberger@...il.com>
Cc:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@...il.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org,
	user-mode-linux-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] um: Use __i386__ in ifdef for vsyscall exports, not
 SUBARCH_i386


> FWIW, what I'm seeing there is chan_interrupt() with tty that has definitely
> been kfree'd.  What happens is that we have several opened files for
> given tty and they all get closed in parallel.  Now, ->release() of
> tty calls ->close() of driver (line_close() in this case) and then
> gets around to decrementing tty->count.  As the result, *all* callers
> of line_close() see line->tty->count > 1 and leave line->tty not reset to
> NULL.  Oops...
> 
> Moral: do not use the counters on upper layer objects unless you know
> what you are doing *and* know what will happen to that upper layer in
> years to come...

Fixed and pushed (um-header.git #master); however, looking around that area
shows more races ;-/  Incidentally, why the hell is ->chan_list a cyclic list?
Holding at most two elements...  Why not an array of two possibly NULL
pointers?  And what is chan->primary?  Unless I'm seriously misreading that
code, it's always 1; moreover, all instances of the method that gets ->primary
value as argument ignore that argument completely...
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