Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759342AbXFRJSL (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jun 2007 05:18:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756967AbXFRJRz (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jun 2007 05:17:55 -0400 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:54780 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755545AbXFRJRz (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jun 2007 05:17:55 -0400 Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 02:18:13 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20070618.021813.105401188.davem@davemloft.net> To: miklos@szeredi.hu Cc: viro@ftp.linux.org.uk, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix race in AF_UNIX From: David Miller In-Reply-To: References: <20070618.005711.21897961.davem@davemloft.net> X-Mailer: Mew version 5.1.52 on Emacs 21.4 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) 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: 644 Lines: 19 From: Miklos Szeredi Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 10:20:23 +0200 > And is anyone working on a better patch? I have no idea. > Those patches aren't "bad" in the correctness sense. So IMO any one > of them is better, than having that bug in there. You're adding a very serious performance regression, which is about as bad as the bug itself. It can wait for a more appropriate fix. - 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/