Re: [PATCH] eventfd: guard wake_up in eventfd fs calls as well

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Tue Aug 30 2022 - 11:13:09 EST


On Tue, 16 Aug 2022 06:59:59 -0700, Dylan Yudaken wrote:
> Guard wakeups that the user can trigger, and that may end up triggering a
> call back into eventfd_signal. This is in addition to the current approach
> that only guards in eventfd_signal.
>
> Rename in_eventfd_signal -> in_eventfd at the same time to reflect this.
>
> Without this there would be a deadlock in the following code using libaio:
>
> [...]

Applied, thanks!

[1/1] eventfd: guard wake_up in eventfd fs calls as well
commit: 07106d2635a6d1eb55bb13e6c89c92ae5483b050

Best regards,
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Jens Axboe