Re: [PATCH] net: fix race in the receive/select

From: Davide Libenzi
Date: Fri Jun 26 2009 - 14:16:33 EST


On Fri, 26 Jun 2009, Oleg Nesterov wrote:

> Perhaps we can add
>
> void sock_poll_wait(struct file *file, struct sock *sk, poll_table *pt)
> {
> if (pt) {
> poll_wait(file, sk->sk_sleep, pt);
> /*
> * fat comment
> */
> smp_mb(); // or smp_mb__after_unlock();
> }
> }

That'd be fine IMHO. Are DaveM and Eric OK?


- Davide


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