netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/1] AF_UNIX: Fix poll locking problem when reading from a stream socket

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Date:	Sat, 26 Nov 2011 16:35:15 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	himeraster@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] AF_UNIX: Fix poll locking problem when reading
 from a stream socket

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 06:23:01 +0100

> Le mardi 22 novembre 2011 à 03:35 +0400, Alexey Moiseytsev a écrit :
>> poll() call may be locked by concurrent reading from the same stream
>> socket.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Alexey Moiseytsev <himeraster@...il.com>
 ..
> Fine, the fix is technically correct since we own u->readlock mutex,
> another thread cannot consume the just requeued skb. 
> 
> Small note : the words "locking" and "locked" are more used to describe
> the action of taking a spinlock/mutex/rwlock or something, while the bug
> you fixed is more about poll() system call being blocked/frozen forever.
> 
> Thanks !
> 
> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>

Applied, with 'lock{ing,ed}' adjusted to 'block{ing,ed}'.
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