On Tue, Feb 09, 2016 at 10:40:50PM +0000, Al Viro wrote: > And the version in orangefs-2.9.3.tar.gz (your Frankenstein module?) is > vulnerable to the same race. 2.8.1 isn't - it ignores signals on the > cancel, but that means waiting for cancel to be processed (or timed out) > on any interrupted read() before we return to userland. We can return > to that behaviour, of course, but I suspect that offloading it to something > async (along with freeing the slot used by original operation) would be > better from QoI point of view. That breakage had been introduced between 2.8.5 and 2.8.6 (at some point during the spring of 2012). AFAICS, all versions starting with 2.8.6 are vulnerable... -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
