Re: [GIT PULL] VFIO fix for v5.8-rc7

[Linus Torvalds]

On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 7:34 AM Alex Williamson
<alex.williamson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> VFIO fixes for v5.8-rc7
>
>  - Fix race with eventfd ctx cleared outside of mutex (Zeng Tao)

Why does this take and then re-take the lock immediately? That just
looks insane.

I realize that this isn't likely to be a performance-critical path,
but this is a basic source cleanliness issue. Doing silly things is
silly, and shouldn't be done, even if they don't matter.

              Linus