On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 12:08:17 -0400 Trond Myklebust <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-07-26 at 17:13 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > Unfortunately, you didn't answer my question. The observed problem is > > that the final kref_put gets called at a time where there are still > > references to the context in nfsi->open_files, and other threads > > therefore do get at them. > > Actually, I thought I did: I said we need to grab the lock atomically > with the last put. See below. > > > The patch holds the i_lock around the kref_put to prevent others > > from searching the list. Ugly, I know, but it seems that's the > > price you pay for using a kref in such unconventional ways, i.e. > > not counting every reference. > > Really ugly. Here's an alternative that is a lot more palatable. Indeed, and it also compiles ;-) I started a test run using this patch, we'll see in a few hours ... -- Mit freundlichen Gruessen, kind regards, Christian Krafft IBM Systems & Technology Group, Linux Kernel Development IT Specialist Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Martin Jetter Geschaeftsfuehrung: Herbert Kircher Sitz der Gesellschaft: Boeblingen Registriergericht: Amtsgericht Stuttgart, HRB 243294
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