On 07/23/2013 01:03 AM, Jörn Engel wrote: > On Mon, 22 July 2013 12:40:29 +0800, Vaughan Cao wrote: >> There is a race when open sg with O_EXCL flag. Also a race may happen between >> sg_open and sg_remove. >> >> Changes from v4: >> * [3/4] use ERR_PTR series instead of adding another parameter in sg_add_sfp >> * [4/4] fix conflict for cherry-pick from v3. >> >> Changes from v3: >> * release o_sem in sg_release(), not in sg_remove_sfp(). >> * not set exclude with sfd_lock held. >> >> Vaughan Cao (4): >> [SCSI] sg: use rwsem to solve race during exclusive open >> [SCSI] sg: no need sg_open_exclusive_lock >> [SCSI] sg: checking sdp->detached isn't protected when open >> [SCSI] sg: push file descriptor list locking down to per-device >> locking >> >> drivers/scsi/sg.c | 178 >> +++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------------- >> 1 file changed, 83 insertions(+), 95 deletions(-) > Patchset looks good to me, although I didn't test it on hardware yet. > Signed-off-by: Joern Engel <jo...@logfs.org> > > James, care to pick this up? > > Jörn Hi James,
sg driver has two races happen in a) exclusive open and non-exclusive open b) sg removal and sg open I explained the scenario detail in the separate patches. I did test those patches and Jörn has reviewed them. I got no response from Doug Gilbert for a long time. Would you care to pick these up? Thanks, Vaughan > > -- > Good warriors cause others to come to them and do not go to others. > -- Sun Tzu -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
