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SubjectRe: kernfs: possible deadlock between of->mutex and mmap_sem
On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 05:44:52PM -0500, Sasha Levin wrote:
> >>I'll send a patch to fix it some time next week unless someone beats me to it :)
> >
> >How are you planning to fix it? Prolly the right thing to do would be
> >caching atomic_write_len in open_file and copy data before grabbing
> >any locks.
>
> I've actually didn't have a plan when I wrote that, was just
> planning on putting effort into it.

I'll prolly work on it tomorrow unless you beat me to it. :)

Thanks.

--
tejun


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