On Mon, 9 Jun 2014 20:15:53 +0200 Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]> wrote:
> > That would indeed be a bad thing, as it could potentially lead to > > use-after-free bugs. Though one could argue that any code that resulted > > in use-after-free would be quite aggressive. But still... > > And once again, note that the normal mutex is already unsafe (unless I missed > something). Is it unsafe? This thread was started because of a bug we triggered in -rt, which ended up being a change specific to -rt that modified the way slub handled SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU. What else was wrong with it? -- Steve -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
