Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933803Ab3CTQw2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Mar 2013 12:52:28 -0400 Received: from mail-pb0-f49.google.com ([209.85.160.49]:55915 "EHLO mail-pb0-f49.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933711Ab3CTQwP (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Mar 2013 12:52:15 -0400 Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 09:53:39 -0700 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: Shankar Brahadeeswaran Cc: Dan Carpenter , Andrew Morton , Konstantin Khlebnikov , devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Hugh Dickins Subject: Re: [BUG] staging: android: ashmem: Deadlock during ashmem_mmap and ashmem_read Message-ID: <20130320165339.GA28307@kroah.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 750 Lines: 19 On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 09:08:03PM +0530, Shankar Brahadeeswaran wrote: > Hi Greg, Dan, > > Few days back I posted a patch to fix a dead lock issue in the ashmem > driver that got merged in staging-next branch > https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/2/20/429 > > I'm seeing that there exists another path in the ashmem driver that > could lead to the similar issue. But this time I'm unable to think of > a way to fix the problem. Why not copy the android developers who wrote this code on this thread? greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/