Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271223AbTHHFZY (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Aug 2003 01:25:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271225AbTHHFZY (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Aug 2003 01:25:24 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:47007 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S271223AbTHHFZX (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Aug 2003 01:25:23 -0400 Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2003 22:27:18 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Paul Clements Cc: ldl@aros.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.6.0 NBD driver: remove send/recieve race for request Message-Id: <20030807222718.5ef37049.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <3F332ED7.712DFE5D@SteelEye.com> References: <3F2FE078.6020305@aros.net> <3F300760.8F703814@SteelEye.com> <3F303430.1080908@aros.net> <3F30510A.E918924B@SteelEye.com> <3F30AF81.4070308@aros.net> <3F332ED7.712DFE5D@SteelEye.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 579 Lines: 16 Paul Clements wrote: > > Here's the patch to fix up several race conditions in nbd. It requires > reverting the already included (but admittedly incomplete) > nbd-race-fix.patch that's in -mm5. > > Andrew, please apply. Sure. Could I please have a summary of what races were fixed, and how? Thanks. - 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/