linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] zram: protect zram->stat race with init

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Message-ID: <54C25083.7020603@redhat.com>
Date:	Fri, 23 Jan 2015 14:45:39 +0100
From:	Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@...hat.com>
To:	Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	Nitin Gupta <ngupta@...are.org>,
	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] zram: protect zram->stat race with init_lock

On 01/23/2015 06:58 AM, Minchan Kim wrote:
> The zram->stat handling should be procted by init_lock.
> Otherwise, user could see stale value from the stat.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>

Acked-by: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@...hat.com>



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