Re: [PATCHv2] vsock: Fix blocking ops call in prepare_to_wait

From	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCHv2] vsock: Fix blocking ops call in prepare_to_wait
Date	2016-02-13 12:00 +0100
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From: Laura Abbott <labbott@fedoraproject.org>
Date: Thu,  4 Feb 2016 10:50:45 -0800

> We receoved a bug report from someone using vmware:
 ...
> transport->stream_enqueue may call copy_to_user so it should
> not be called inside a prepare_to_wait. Narrow the scope of
> the prepare_to_wait to avoid the bad call. This also applies
> to vsock_stream_recvmsg as well.
> 
> Reported-by: Vinson Lee <vlee@freedesktop.org>
> Tested-by: Vinson Lee <vlee@freedesktop.org>
> Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@fedoraproject.org>

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