Re: [PATCH v5 1/4] [SCSI] sg: use rwsem to solve race during exclusive open

2013-08-27 Thread James Bottomley
On Mon, 2013-07-22 at 12:40 +0800, Vaughan Cao wrote: > A race condition may happen if two threads are both trying to open the same sg > with O_EXCL simultaneously. It's possible that they both find fsds list is > empty and get_exclude(sdp) returns 0, then they both call set_exclude() and > break o

[PATCH v5 1/4] [SCSI] sg: use rwsem to solve race during exclusive open

2013-07-21 Thread Vaughan Cao
A race condition may happen if two threads are both trying to open the same sg with O_EXCL simultaneously. It's possible that they both find fsds list is empty and get_exclude(sdp) returns 0, then they both call set_exclude() and break out from wait_event_interruptible and resume open. Now use rws