linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] fuse: clear FR_PENDING flag when moving requests out of pending queue

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Date:   Fri, 13 Jan 2017 12:13:04 +0100
From:   Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
To:     Tahsin Erdogan <tahsin@...gle.com>
Cc:     linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fuse: clear FR_PENDING flag when moving requests out of
 pending queue

On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 9:04 PM, Tahsin Erdogan <tahsin@...gle.com> wrote:
> fuse_abort_conn() moves requests from pending list to a temporary list
> before canceling them. This operation races with request_wait_answer()
> which also tries to remove the request after it gets a fatal signal. It
> checks FR_PENDING flag to determine whether the request is still in the
> pending list.
>
> Make fuse_abort_conn() clear FR_PENDING flag so that request_wait_answer()
> does not remove the request from temporary list.
>
> This bug manifests itself as a panic that looks like this:

Perfect patch; applied and pushed.

Thanks,
Miklos