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From: Mariusz Gorski <marius.gorski@gmail.com>
To: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Willy Tarreau <willy@meta-x.org>,
	devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: panel: Fix single-open policy race condition
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2014 12:51:22 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141105115121.GA2592@firebird> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141105101910.GO6879@mwanda>

On Wed, Nov 05, 2014 at 01:19:10PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 04, 2014 at 10:47:19PM +0100, Mariusz Gorski wrote:
> > Fix the implementation of a single-open policy for both
> > devices (lcd and keypad) by using atomic_t instead of plain ints.
> > 
> 
> This seems like it might be a real life bug that you have experienced?

No, I don't think it might really happen in real life. I found it just
by reading the code. A similar solution is used in Chapter 6 of the LDD3
book, so I thought it might be a good idea to fix is here.

> The changelog should tell the user visible effects of the bug.  If you
> have some dmesg output that would be helpful as well.

Nope, I can't really reproduce it ATM.

> regards,
> dan carpenter
> 

Cheers,
Mariusz

  reply	other threads:[~2014-11-05 11:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-04 21:47 Mariusz Gorski
2014-11-05 10:19 ` Dan Carpenter
2014-11-05 11:51   ` Mariusz Gorski [this message]
2014-11-11  7:37     ` Willy Tarreau

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