Re: [PATCH] FUTEX: one more return .

From: Daniel Walker
Date: Thu Feb 16 2006 - 14:13:48 EST



Ok ..


On Thu, 16 Feb 2006, Ulrich Drepper wrote:

On 2/16/06, Daniel Walker <dwalker@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Continue the theme of returns .

No, that's wrong. I got Ingo to remove this code and he documented it:

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- race fix: do not bail out in the list walk when the list_op_pending
pointer cannot be followed by the kernel - another userspace thread
may have already destroyed the mutex (and unmapped it), before this
thread had a chance to clear the field.
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