Re: [BUGS] [CHECKER] 99 synchronization bugs and a lock summarydatabase

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Fri Jul 02 2004 - 02:36:54 EST


Yichen Xie <yxie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > AFAICT fs/sysv/itree.c:find_shared is innocent.
>
> I guess here's what has triggered the warning by the tool:
>
> get_branch may try to acquire pointers_lock (itree.c:103) on one of its
> paths, which was held (line 287) by find_shared...

OK, that's certainly very broken. I'll fix that one up.


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