On Tue, Dec 17 2013, Rafael Aquini wrote: > After the locking semantics for the SysV IPC API got improved, a couple of > IPC_RMID race windows were opened because we ended up dropping the > 'kern_ipc_perm.deleted' check performed way down in ipc_lock(). > The spotted races got sorted out by re-introducing the old test within > the racy critical sections. > > This patch introduces ipc_valid_object() to consolidate the way we cope with > IPC_RMID races by using the same abstraction across the API implementation. > > Signed-off-by: Rafael Aquini <aqu...@redhat.com>
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