Re: [PATCH V4] IB/uverbs: Fix race between uverbs_close and remove_one

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On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 9:42 PM, Jason Gunthorpe
<jgunthorpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 09:38:30PM +0530, Devesh Sharma wrote:
>
>> To my mind mutex is *not* solving the problem completely unless we
>> make it a coarser grained lock. The possible deadlock problem still
>> lingers around it.
>
> Review the last version I sent, with this statement in mind:

I am sorry I lost the track of it, which one you are point..we have
been discussion for a quite some time now!

>
>> > The fundamental thing is that the ib_uverbs_free_hw_resources thread
>> > must wait for ib_uverbs_close's ib_uverbs_cleanup_ucontext to finish,
>> > if necessary, not the other way around.
>
> It sure doesn't look like it can deadlock...
>
> Jason
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