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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Send quota messages via netlink
On Tue 28-08-07 21:51:28, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Aug 2007 16:13:18 +0200 Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> wrote:
>
> > +static void send_warning(const struct dquot *dquot, const char warntype)
> > +{
> > + static unsigned long seq;
> > + struct sk_buff *skb;
> > + void *msg_head;
> > + int ret;
> > +
> > + skb = genlmsg_new(QUOTA_NL_MSG_SIZE, GFP_NOFS);
> > + if (!skb) {
> > + printk(KERN_ERR
> > + "VFS: Not enough memory to send quota warning.\n");
> > + return;
> > + }
> > + msg_head = genlmsg_put(skb, 0, seq++, &quota_genl_family, 0, QUOTA_NL_C_WARNING);
>
> The access to seq is racy, isn't it?
>
> If so, that can be solved with a lock, or with atomic_add_return().
You're right. I've made atomic_t from seq. Thanks for spotting this.

Honza
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Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
SuSE CR Labs
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