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From: Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de>
To: Gui-Dong Han <hanguidong02@gmail.com>, linux-media@vger.kernel.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@gmail.com>,
	Hans Verkuil <hverkuil+cisco@kernel.org>,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] media: dvb_demux: fix potential TOCTOU race conditions
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2026 13:38:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <88dbfb85-571a-4f65-8879-16972dd87bbd@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260120121105.8959-1-hanguidong02@gmail.com>

…
> Fix this by extending the lock scope.
…

How do you think about to increase the application of scope-based resource management?
https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.19-rc5/source/include/linux/mutex.h#L253


> This possible bug was found by our experimental static analysis tool,
> which analyzes lock usage to detect TOCTOU issues.

* Do you refer to any other source code analysis approach than LR-Miner?

* Will any additional background information become more helpful here?


Regards,
Markus

  reply	other threads:[~2026-01-20 12:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-01-20 12:11 Gui-Dong Han
2026-01-20 12:38 ` Markus Elfring [this message]
2026-01-20 12:46   ` Gui-Dong Han
2026-01-20 13:20   ` Greg KH
2026-02-07 14:10 ` Gui-Dong Han

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