On 06/11, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > Could you spell to explain why this can't work (again, in this simple case) ? > > > > My current (and I know, very poor) understanding is that .release() should > > roughly do the following: > > > > 1. Ensure that vhost_work_queue() can't add the new callbacks > > > > 2. Call vhost_dev_flush() to ensure that worker->work_list is empty > > > > 3. Call vhost_task_stop() > > At least in the case of exec by the time the final fput happens > from close_on_exec the task has already changed it's mm. Of course you are right. But can't resist, please note that I only meant "this simple case" which doesn't include exec/etc. Nevermind. As Mike explains there are more problems even in this particular "simple" case, and I am not surprised. Sorry for noise, Oleg. _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization