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From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
To: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>,
	kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC 1/2] anon-inodes: Remove fd_install() from anon_inode_getfd()
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 15:42:42 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <adar6eyx8y5.fsf@cisco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ada7igqyurw.fsf@cisco.com> (Roland Dreier's message of "Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:05:55 -0800")

 > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6.git;a=commit;h=49be4f8114e6ff0efdab10ebba2493fb67bc3034

Actually, looking closer at the kvm changes here, I think that
create_vcpu_fd() needs the same treatment as kvm_dev_ioctl_create_vm()
gets in the patch because of the race I mentioned in the changelog
for my patch: otherwise kvm_vcpu_release() could drop the last
reference to vcpu->kvm->filp before the get_file() gets an extra
reference.

I'm beginning to think that moving the fd_install() out of
anon_inode_getfd() really is worth it to make a safer interface.

 - R.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-27 23:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20080225191043.GA32342@lst.de>
2008-02-27 19:16 ` [PATCH/RFC 1/2] anon-inodes: Remove fd_install() from anon_inode_getfd() Roland Dreier
2008-02-27 19:18   ` [PATCH 2/2] IB/uverbs: Use anonymous inodes instead of private filesystem Roland Dreier
2008-02-27 19:20   ` [PATCH/RFC 1/2] anon-inodes: Remove fd_install() from anon_inode_getfd() Avi Kivity
2008-02-27 19:41   ` Davide Libenzi
2008-02-27 20:14     ` Roland Dreier
2008-02-27 20:30       ` Davide Libenzi
2008-02-27 21:05         ` Roland Dreier
2008-02-27 23:42           ` Roland Dreier [this message]
2008-02-28  7:52             ` Avi Kivity
2008-02-28 20:04             ` Davide Libenzi
2008-02-28 20:24               ` Roland Dreier
2008-02-28 20:52                 ` Davide Libenzi
2008-03-05  9:32                   ` [kvm-devel] " Avi Kivity
2008-03-06 15:14             ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-03-09  2:45               ` Roland Dreier
2008-03-17 10:40                 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-03-17 10:48                   ` Avi Kivity
2008-03-09  2:46               ` Roland Dreier
2008-03-06 15:14   ` Al Viro

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