Re: [PATCH] [SCSI] sg: late O_EXCL fix for lk 3.12-rc

2013-10-21 Thread Douglas Gilbert
On 13-10-21 06:35 AM, Vaughan Cao wrote: On 2013年10月21日 07:00, Douglas Gilbert wrote: On 13-10-20 01:31 PM, Bart Van Assche wrote: On 10/20/13 18:09, Douglas Gilbert wrote: Given that lk 3.12.0 release is not far away, the safest path may still be to revert Vaughan Cao's patch. I'll leave tha

Re: [PATCH] [SCSI] sg: late O_EXCL fix for lk 3.12-rc

2013-10-21 Thread Vaughan Cao
On 2013年10月21日 07:00, Douglas Gilbert wrote: On 13-10-20 01:31 PM, Bart Van Assche wrote: On 10/20/13 18:09, Douglas Gilbert wrote: Given that lk 3.12.0 release is not far away, the safest path may still be to revert Vaughan Cao's patch. I'll leave that decision to the maintainers. Hello Dou

Re: [PATCH] [SCSI] sg: late O_EXCL fix for lk 3.12-rc

2013-10-20 Thread Douglas Gilbert
On 13-10-20 01:31 PM, Bart Van Assche wrote: On 10/20/13 18:09, Douglas Gilbert wrote: Given that lk 3.12.0 release is not far away, the safest path may still be to revert Vaughan Cao's patch. I'll leave that decision to the maintainers. Hello Doug, Thanks for looking into this. But I would a

[PATCH] [SCSI] sg: late O_EXCL fix for lk 3.12-rc

2013-10-20 Thread Douglas Gilbert
The lk 3.12.0-rc series contains a series of patches from Vaughan Cao introduced by this post: [PATCH v7 0/4][SCSI] sg: fix race condition in sg_open http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=137774159020002&w=2 Doubt was thrown on the implementation by Madper Xie in this thread: [Bug] 12.864681