Re: [rtc-linux] Re: BUG: lock held when returning to user space

[Alessandro Zummo]

On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 00:47:15 +0200 (CEST)
Jiri Kosina <jikos@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Yes, but the fact is that is really is invalid use of mutex -- because the 
> mutex owner could become seriously wrong after fork() or sending the 
> filedescriptor through unix socket ... this easily leads to broken 
> situation.
> 
> This seems to have been introduced in e824290e5d ... Alessandro, could you 
> convert this to test_and_set_bit()/clear_bit() semantics instead of a 
> mutex please?

 Hi Jiri,
   I was away for the weekend and just saw the whole discussion
 and your patch and I'm happy to ack it. Thank you very much
 a thanks to Gabriel for the bug report!
 

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 Best regards,

 Alessandro Zummo,
  Tower Technologies - Torino, Italy

  http://www.towertech.it

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