Don, > Uli privately has been working on a patchset that cleans up a bunch of these > race conditions. We believe it should cover this case. It uses the > proc_mutex to synchronize everything. > > I think he is reaching out to you. If you could try his patchset to see if > it fixes things, it might be a cleaner approach than what you are doing. > > <small time goes by> > > Ok, I was poked on IRC and you have already done this and it passed your > testcase. Let me get Uli to post his patches. :-) > > Cheers, > Don
I posted the patch set here: https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/8/1/64 https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/8/1/65 https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/8/1/66 https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/8/1/67 https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/8/1/68 Regards, Uli -- 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/