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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [2/3] Create call_usermodehelper_pipe()
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 14:22:25 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060815142225.52cc86b3.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060814112731.5A16213BD9@wotan.suse.de>

On Mon, 14 Aug 2006 13:27:31 +0200 (CEST)
Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> wrote:

> +	/* Install input pipe when needed */
> +	if (sub_info->stdin) {
> +		struct files_struct *f = current->files;
> +		struct fdtable *fdt;
> +		/* no races because files should be private here */
> +		sys_close(0);
> +		fd_install(0, sub_info->stdin);
> +		spin_lock(&f->file_lock);
> +		fdt = files_fdtable(f);
> +		FD_SET(0, fdt->open_fds);
> +		FD_CLR(0, fdt->close_on_exec);
> +		spin_unlock(&f->file_lock);
> +	}

This is all going to be run by kernel threads, and all kernel threads share
current->files=&init_files.

So I suspect that if two coredumps happen at the same time bad things will
happen.  Like a BUG() in fd_install()?


  reply	other threads:[~2006-08-15 21:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20060814 127.183332000@suse.de>
2006-08-14 11:27 ` [PATCH] [1/3] Some cleanup in the pipe code Andi Kleen
2006-08-14 11:27 ` [PATCH] [2/3] Create call_usermodehelper_pipe() Andi Kleen
2006-08-15 21:22   ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2006-08-16  2:13     ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-16  7:22       ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-14 11:27 ` [PATCH] [3/3] Support piping into commands in /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern Andi Kleen
2006-08-15  0:43   ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-15  6:04     ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-16  8:43   ` Greg KH
2006-08-16  9:18     ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-16 18:10       ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-17  9:46         ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-17 11:27           ` Alan Cox
2006-08-18  5:30             ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-18  8:29               ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-18 12:01                 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-08-18 12:10                   ` Arjan van de Ven

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