Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763296AbXFRKIs (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jun 2007 06:08:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1761505AbXFRJ7p (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jun 2007 05:59:45 -0400 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:50255 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1761352AbXFRJ71 (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jun 2007 05:59:27 -0400 Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 02:59:45 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20070618.025945.123705241.davem@davemloft.net> To: miklos@szeredi.hu Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, 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: <20070618.024807.45712241.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: 595 Lines: 14 From: Miklos Szeredi Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 11:55:19 +0200 > It's doing trylocks and releasing all those locks within the same spin > locked region, how the f**k can that deadlock? The case I'm very concerned about is the interactions of your new code with the unix_state_double_lock() stuff I added recently to fix another bug. - 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/