Re: [patch] Fix epoll delayed initialization bug ...

[Al Viro]

On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 04:59:02PM -0700, Roland Dreier wrote:
>     Davide> Al found a potential problem in epoll_create(), where the
>     Davide> file->private_data member was set after fd_install(). This is
>     Davide> obviously wrong since another thread might do a close() on
>     Davide> that fd# before we set the file->private_data member. This
>     Davide> goes over 2.6.13 and passes a few basic tests I've done here.
> 
> Actually, I found the problem after Al pointed out a similar bug in my code ;)

Yup.
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