Aristeu Sergio Rozanski Filho wrote:
This normally would only issue a warning on idr_remove() but in case of a
customer's critical application, it's never too simple:
thread1: opens master, gets index X
thread1: begin closing master
thread2: begin opening slave with index X
thread1: finishes closing master, index X released
thread3: opens master, gets index X, just released
thread2: fails opening slave, releases index X <----
thread4: opens master, gets index X, init_dev() then find an already in use
and healthy tty and fails
OK, that's fiendishly subtle, as most races are, of course. I'll try to
walk through the codepaths to make sure the proposed patch doesn't
introduce a leak, but the concept sounds good.
-hpa
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