On Mon, 24 Sep 2018 14:57:26 +0200 Halil Pasic <pasic@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 09/21/2018 03:30 PM, Cornelia Huck wrote: > > On Fri, 21 Sep 2018 14:46:21 +0200 > > Halil Pasic <pasic@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Again, not what I tried to say. By 'This' I meant 'this race'. How > about? > > """ > This race normally does not cause any problems. The operations provided > by struct virtio_config_ops are usually invoked in a well defined sequence, > normally don't fail, and are normally usually quite infrequent too. s/usually/used/ > > Yet, if some of the these operations are directly triggered via > sysfs attributes, like in the case described by the referenced bug, > userspace is given an opportunity to force races by increasing the > frequency of the given operations. > """ Fine with me.