Re: [patch, lock validator] fix uidhash_lock <-> RCU deadlock

From: Daniel Walker
Date: Wed Jan 25 2006 - 11:58:02 EST


On Wed, 2006-01-25 at 15:23 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> RCU task-struct freeing can call free_uid(), which is taking
> uidhash_lock - while other users of uidhash_lock are softirq-unsafe.
>
> This bug was found by the lock validator i'm working on:

What is it doing exactly ?

Daniel

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