Re: [Patch] Couple of races on MIPS.

ralf@uni-koblenz.de
Fri, 19 Feb 1999 01:33:12 +0100


On Thu, Feb 18, 1999 at 12:10:48AM -0500, Alexander Viro wrote:

> Ralf, Linus - sorry for bothering you, but we have Yet Another
> Race(tm). irix_ngetdents(), irix_getdents64() and irix_ngetdents64()
> call ->readdir() method without holding the lock on directory inode.
> With obvious results - race with about anything, starting from creat().

I've fixed that independant from you, irix_*getdents* now mostly look like
sys_getdents which should be fine.

Thanks,

Ralf

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