Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760163AbXJQWKV (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Oct 2007 18:10:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756092AbXJQWKJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Oct 2007 18:10:09 -0400 Received: from sj-iport-3-in.cisco.com ([171.71.176.72]:30874 "EHLO sj-iport-3.cisco.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754954AbXJQWKH (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Oct 2007 18:10:07 -0400 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.21,291,1188802800"; d="scan'208";a="536692785" To: Al Viro Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RESEND] file operations: release can race with read/write? X-Message-Flag: Warning: May contain useful information References: <20071017193320.GK8181@ftp.linux.org.uk> From: Roland Dreier Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 15:10:04 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20071017193320.GK8181@ftp.linux.org.uk> (Al Viro's message of "Wed, 17 Oct 2007 20:33:21 +0100") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) XEmacs/21.4.20 (linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-OriginalArrivalTime: 17 Oct 2007 22:10:05.0349 (UTC) FILETIME=[78C39D50:01C8110A] Authentication-Results: sj-dkim-4; header.From=rdreier@cisco.com; dkim=pass ( sig from cisco.com/sjdkim4002 verified; ); Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 405 Lines: 11 > Of _course_ you can trigger that - just open two files and have write > on one of them while another gets closed. Right, thanks for the explanation. - R. - 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/