Re: [PATCH] [Request for inclusion] Filesystem in Userspace

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 10:40 +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> > somehow I find dropping the lock and then doing a list_del() without
> > any kind of verification very suspicious.
> 
> list_del() is done with the lock held.  Look closely. 

yes but how do you know the entry is still on the list and valid ?
you dropped the lock. A normal code pattern is that you then HAVE 
to revalidate the assumptions which you guard by that lock.
If there are no such assumptions... then you didn't need the lock.


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