linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 04/10] pipe: Use head and tail pointers for the ring, not cursor and length [ver #2]

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Date:   Sun, 8 Dec 2019 10:10:51 -0800
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Johannes Hirte <johannes.hirte@...enkhaos.de>
Cc:     David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
        Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>, raven@...maw.net,
        Christian Brauner <christian@...uner.io>,
        keyrings@...r.kernel.org, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-block <linux-block@...r.kernel.org>,
        LSM List <linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux API <linux-api@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 04/10] pipe: Use head and tail pointers for the ring,
 not cursor and length [ver #2]

On Sun, Dec 8, 2019 at 9:56 AM Johannes Hirte
<johannes.hirte@...enkhaos.de> wrote:
>
> whereas with a fresh cloned repo I get:
>
> v5.4-13331-g9455d25f4e3b
>
> I assume the later is right. With this version the bug seems to be
> fixed, regardless of the commit count. Tested with different websites
> and firefox works as expected again.

Ok, good. It was almost certainly the select/poll race fix - Mariusz
Ceier reported a problem with youtube hanging, and confirmed that the
poll/select fix seems to have cleared that one up. I suspect that your
hang on fb and spiegel.de were the same thing.

So I think the pipe code is stable again with current -git. Thanks for
reporting and testing,

             Linus