Re: [PATCH] ipc: introduce ipc_valid_object() helper to sort outIPC_RMID races

[Rik van Riel]

On 12/17/2013 02:03 PM, Rafael Aquini wrote:
> After the locking semantics for the SysV IPC API got improved, a couple of
> IPC_RMID race windows were opened because we ended up dropping the
> 'kern_ipc_perm.deleted' check performed way down in ipc_lock().
> The spotted races got sorted out by re-introducing the old test within
> the racy critical sections.
> 
> This patch introduces ipc_valid_object() to consolidate the way we cope with
> IPC_RMID races by using the same abstraction across the API implementation.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rafael Aquini <aquini@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>


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