Scott Long wrote: > Bryan Liesner wrote: > It's very hard to imagine Jeff's patches causing a problem at the point > that the PR mentions. Have you confirmed the problem in a kernel that > was build in a totally clean environment? The changed code is not protecting a traversal of a proc struct member with a proc lock in two places. What's hard to imagine? Even if it's weren't necessary to protect that FOREACH loop (it's necessary; but even if it weren't...), locking the proc could easily serialize a number of operations through that or other code which could save it from interference. -- TerryReceived on Tue Jun 03 2003 - 20:57:13 UTC
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