On 28.10.2008 15.25, "Lino Sanfilippo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> After studying the kernel code it also seems to me that the group > registration code in dazuko_register_daemon() contains a possible race > condition: > Looking for a slotlist to register a group PLUS assigning the group to > it should be done atomic. > Otherwise in the (admittedly rare) case that two or more processes are > trying to register the same group, one process could assign the group > to a slotlist right after another one has figured out that this > group is not yet registered and thus trying to register it, too. The > result could be 2 or more slotlists being assigned to the same group. I think this sounds a lot like the bug we were encountering. We started 10 processes that tried to register to dazuko. Unfortunately I don't remember the specifics any more. I think the problem went away after we did this fix: http://savannah.nongnu.org/patch/?6165 -- Sami _______________________________________________ Dazuko-devel mailing list Dazuko-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/dazuko-devel
