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Re: [PATCH] hysdn: fix to a race condition in put_log_buffer

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  Re: [PATCH] hysdn: fix to a race condition in put_log_buffer David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> - 2017-08-01 02:30 +0200

#1700534 — Re: [PATCH] hysdn: fix to a race condition in put_log_buffer

From: Anton Volkov <avolkov@ispras.ru>
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2017 17:53:51 +0300

> The synchronization type that was used earlier to guard the loop that
> deletes unused log buffers may have lead to a situation that prevents
> any thread from going through the loop.
> 
> The patch deletes previously used synchronization mechanism and moves
> the loop under the spin_lock so the similar cases won't be feasible in
> the future.
> 
> Found by by Linux Driver Verification project (linuxtesting.org).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Anton Volkov <avolkov@ispras.ru>

This patch doesn't apply at all.

It's probably been corrupted by your email client.

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