Re: [CHECKER] possible deadlock in 2.6.8.1 lockd code

[Greg Banks]

On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 12:57, Dawson Engler wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> below is a possible deadlock in the linux-2.6.8.1 lockd code found by a
> static deadlock checker I'm writing.  Let me know if it looks valid and/or
> whether the output is too cryptic.  (Note, the locking dependencies go
> across a bunch of function calls, so the paths may be infeasible.)

Nick's comment applies here.  Furthermore, there is at most one lockd
thread so once again there is no thread B to deadlock with.

Greg.
-- 
Greg Banks, R&D Software Engineer, SGI Australian Software Group.
I don't speak for SGI.


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