[PATCH]2.6 test1 mm2 user.c race (?)

From: ffrederick@prov-liege.be
Date: Mon Jul 28 2003 - 07:09:05 EST


Andrew,

        Trivial patch against possible smp race (?) in user.c
or do we have bkl above ?

Regards,
Fabian

diff -Naur orig/kernel/user.c edited/kernel/user.c
--- orig/kernel/user.c 2003-07-14 05:32:42.000000000 +0200
+++ edited/kernel/user.c 2003-07-28 13:44:55.000000000 +0200
@@ -146,8 +146,11 @@
         for(n = 0; n < UIDHASH_SZ; ++n)
                 INIT_LIST_HEAD(uidhash_table + n);
 
- /* Insert the root user immediately - init already runs with this */
+ /* Insert the root user immediately (init already runs as root) */
+ spin_lock(&uidhash_lock);
         uid_hash_insert(&root_user, uidhashentry(0));
+ spin_unlock(&uidhash_lock);
+
         return 0;
 }
 

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