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Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2003 13:05:04 -0400
From: Paul Clements <Paul.Clements@SteelEye.com>
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To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.6.0 NBD driver: remove send/recieve race for request
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Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> Paul Clements <Paul.Clements@SteelEye.com> 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?

I outlined the other races in the mail I just sent. In addition, the
updated patch will fix an Oops where lo->sock gets set to NULL (by
NBD_CLEAR_SOCK) before NBD_DO_IT completes. This can happen when
"nbd-client -d" is called to disconnect the nbd socket.

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Paul
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