linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] uevent: send events in correct order according to seqnum (v2)

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Date:	Wed, 7 Mar 2012 11:18:47 +0100
From:	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>
To:	Andrew Vagin <avagin@...nvz.org>
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	linux-hotplug@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] uevent: send events in correct order according to seqnum (v2)

On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 10:59, Andrew Vagin <avagin@...nvz.org> wrote:
> The queue handling in the udev daemon assumes that the events are
> ordered.

> -       retval = add_uevent_var(env, "SEQNUM=%llu", (unsigned long long)seq);
> +       retval = add_uevent_var(env, "SEQNUM=%llu", (unsigned long long)++uevent_seqnum);
>        if (retval)
>                goto exit;

We need to unlock the mutex before the goto exit?

Other than that, looks good to me.

Thanks,
Kay
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