linux-kernel - Re: [BUG] staging: android: ashmem: Deadlock during ashmem_mmap and ashmem

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Message-ID: <20130320165339.GA28307@kroah.com>
Date:	Wed, 20 Mar 2013 09:53:39 -0700
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	Shankar Brahadeeswaran <shankoo77@...il.com>
Cc:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@...nvz.org>,
	devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [BUG] staging: android: ashmem: Deadlock during ashmem_mmap and
 ashmem_read

On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 09:08:03PM +0530, Shankar Brahadeeswaran wrote:
> Hi Greg, Dan,
> 
> Few days back I posted a patch to fix a dead lock issue in the ashmem
> driver that got merged in staging-next branch
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/2/20/429
> 
> I'm seeing that there exists another path in the ashmem driver that
> could lead to the similar issue. But this time I'm unable to think of
> a way to fix the problem.

Why not copy the android developers who wrote this code on this thread?

greg k-h
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