Re: [BUILD_FAILURE] next-20090115 - s390x - mm/kmemleak.c

[Catalin Marinas]

On Thu, 2009-01-15 at 13:05 +0100, Heiko Carstens wrote:
> Btw. you have
> 
> /*
>  * Stop the automatic memory scanning thread. This function must be called
>  * with the kmemleak_mutex held.
>  */
> void stop_scan_thread(void)
> {
> ...
> 
> but call the function unlocked from kmemleak_write. Looks like a bug ;)

kmemleak_write() is called with the kmemleak_mutex acquired in the
kmemleak_open() function (and released in kmemleak_release()).

-- 
Catalin

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