Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752491Ab3HAFBv (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Aug 2013 01:01:51 -0400 Received: from smtp.infotech.no ([82.134.31.41]:55501 "EHLO smtp.infotech.no" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751037Ab3HAFBu (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Aug 2013 01:01:50 -0400 Message-ID: <51F9EB97.7070305@interlog.com> Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2013 01:01:11 -0400 From: Douglas Gilbert Reply-To: dgilbert@interlog.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130623 Thunderbird/17.0.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?UTF-8?B?SsO2cm4gRW5nZWw=?= , Vaughan Cao , JBottomley@parallels.com CC: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 0/4] [SCSI] sg: fix race condition in sg_open References: <1374075246-22923-1-git-send-email-vaughan.cao@oracle.com> <1374468033-8947-1-git-send-email-vaughan.cao@oracle.com> <20130722170338.GA15824@logfs.org> In-Reply-To: <20130722170338.GA15824@logfs.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1667 Lines: 46 On 13-07-22 01:03 PM, Jörn Engel wrote: > On Mon, 22 July 2013 12:40:29 +0800, Vaughan Cao wrote: >> >> There is a race when open sg with O_EXCL flag. Also a race may happen between >> sg_open and sg_remove. >> >> Changes from v4: >> * [3/4] use ERR_PTR series instead of adding another parameter in sg_add_sfp >> * [4/4] fix conflict for cherry-pick from v3. >> >> Changes from v3: >> * release o_sem in sg_release(), not in sg_remove_sfp(). >> * not set exclude with sfd_lock held. >> >> Vaughan Cao (4): >> [SCSI] sg: use rwsem to solve race during exclusive open >> [SCSI] sg: no need sg_open_exclusive_lock >> [SCSI] sg: checking sdp->detached isn't protected when open >> [SCSI] sg: push file descriptor list locking down to per-device >> locking >> >> drivers/scsi/sg.c | 178 +++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------------- >> 1 file changed, 83 insertions(+), 95 deletions(-) > > Patchset looks good to me, although I didn't test it on hardware yet. > Signed-off-by: Joern Engel > > James, care to pick this up? Acked-by: Douglas Gilbert Tested O_EXCL with multiple processes and threads; passed. sg driver prior to this patch had "leaky" O_EXCL logic according to the same test. Block device passed. James, could you clean this up: drivers/scsi/sg.c:242:6: warning: unused variable ‘res’ [-Wunused-variable] Doug Gilbert -- 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/