netdev - Re: [PATCH] fix race in AF

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Message-Id: <20070618.021813.105401188.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 18 Jun 2007 02:18:13 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	miklos@...redi.hu
Cc:	viro@....linux.org.uk, alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix race in AF_UNIX

From: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 10:20:23 +0200

> And is anyone working on a better patch?

I have no idea.

> Those patches aren't "bad" in the correctness sense.  So IMO any one
> of them is better, than having that bug in there.

You're adding a very serious performance regression, which is
about as bad as the bug itself.

It can wait for a more appropriate fix.
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