Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 20 Nov 2019 11:33:14 -0600 | From | Pete Zaitcev <> | Subject | Re: possible deadlock in mon_bin_vma_fault |
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On Wed, 20 Nov 2019 11:14:05 -0500 (EST) Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> wrote:
> As it happens, I spent a little time investigating this bug report just > yesterday. It seems to me that the easiest fix would be to disallow > resizing the buffer while it is mapped by any users. (Besides, > allowing that seems like a bad idea in any case.) > > Pete, does that seem reasonable to you?
Actually, please hold on a little, I think to think more about this. The deadlock is between mon_bin_read and mon_bin_vma_fault. To disallow resizing isn't going to fix _that_.
-- Pete
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