Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 08 Aug 2003 13:05:04 -0400 | From | Paul Clements <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 2.6.0 NBD driver: remove send/recieve race for request |
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Andrew Morton wrote: > > Paul Clements <Paul.Clements@SteelEye.com> wrote: > > > > Here's the patch to fix up several race conditions in nbd. It requires > > reverting the already included (but admittedly incomplete) > > nbd-race-fix.patch that's in -mm5. > > > > Andrew, please apply. > > Sure. Could I please have a summary of what races were fixed, and how?
I outlined the other races in the mail I just sent. In addition, the updated patch will fix an Oops where lo->sock gets set to NULL (by NBD_CLEAR_SOCK) before NBD_DO_IT completes. This can happen when "nbd-client -d" is called to disconnect the nbd socket.
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