Re: [PATCH] net: fix race in the receive/select
From: Herbert Xu
Date: Wed Jul 01 2009 - 04:32:08 EST
On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 09:22:26AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
>
> Agreed.
>
> I suspect the reordering of the wake queue tests might makes a difference, but
> in this case to ensure they are always tested in the proper order by
> the compiler would need more smp_rmb()s
I just looked up the original bug report and it's against RHEL4
which is a 2.6.9 kernel. Jiri, have we reproduced this on a more
recent kernel?
Thanks,
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