From: Miklos Szeredi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 10:08:29 +0200
> There are races involving the garbage collector, that can throw away > perfectly good packets with AF_UNIX sockets in them. > > The problems arise when a socket goes from installed to in-flight or > vice versa during garbage collection. Since gc is done with a > spinlock held, this only shows up on SMP. > > Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I'm going to hold off on this one for now. Holding all of the read locks kind of defeats the purpose of using the per-socket lock. Can't you just lock purely around the receive queue operation? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
