Traditionally, changes to struct file->f_flags have been done under BKL protection, or with no protection at all. This patch causes all f_flags changes after file open/creation time to be done under protection of f_lock. This allows the removal of some BKL usage and fixes a number of longstanding (if microscopic) races. Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> |
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| ipc_sysctl.c | ||
| ipcns_notifier.c | ||
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| mqueue.c | ||
| msg.c | ||
| msgutil.c | ||
| namespace.c | ||
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| shm.c | ||
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