On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 08:32:28PM +0100, viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk wrote:
> You are. Have a process share file table at the time of call and
> have its sibling die in the middle. Oops - condition that had
> been true at time of fget_light() (->files->count > 1) is false
> at the time we fput_light(). Have fun - we had just leaked a
> reference to struct file.
That shouldn't be very difficult to fix. For the fget_light/fput_light
pair in a syscall, we make the files->count == 1 check only once at the
beginning. Do you see a problem with that ?
Thanks
Dipankar
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