Re: [PATCH] Yama: remove locking from delete path

From: James Morris
Date: Mon Nov 19 2012 - 22:46:03 EST


On Mon, 19 Nov 2012, Kees Cook wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 6:23 PM, James Morris <jmorris@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Mon, 19 Nov 2012, Kees Cook wrote:
> >
> >> Instead of locking the list during a delete, mark entries as invalid
> >> and trigger a workqueue to clean them up. This lets us easily handle
> >> task_free from interrupt context.
> >>
> >> Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > This doesn't apply cleanly to my -next branch.
>
> Did you already apply this from last week?
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/11/13/808

Nope.

>
> > Kees: can you think about using git to push changes to me for Yama?
>
> If this pace of changes keeps up, sure thing.

In any case, please check that your patches apply cleanly to my -next
branch.


- James
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James Morris
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