The patch titled file: Add locking to f_getown has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename is file-add-locking-to-f_getown.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: file: Add locking to f_getown From: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> This has been needed for a long time, but now with the advent of a reference counted struct pid there are real consequences for getting this wrong. Someone I think it was Oleg Nesterov pointed out that this construct was missing locking, when I introduced struct pid. After taking time to review the locking construct already present I figured out which lock needs to be taken. The other paths that access f_owner.pid take either the f_owner read or the write lock. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> --- fs/fcntl.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff -puN fs/fcntl.c~file-add-locking-to-f_getown fs/fcntl.c --- a/fs/fcntl.c~file-add-locking-to-f_getown +++ a/fs/fcntl.c @@ -305,9 +305,11 @@ void f_delown(struct file *filp) pid_t f_getown(struct file *filp) { pid_t pid; + read_lock(&filp->f_owner.lock); pid = pid_nr(filp->f_owner.pid); if (filp->f_owner.pid_type == PIDTYPE_PGID) pid = -pid; + read_unlock(&filp->f_owner.lock); return pid; } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx are origin.patch namespaces-utsname-introduce-temporary-helpers.patch git-scsi-misc.patch revert-insert-ioapics-and-local-apic-into-resource-map.patch insert-local-and-io-apics-into-resource-map.patch genirq-irq-convert-the-move_irq-flag-from-a-32bit-word-to-a-single-bit.patch genirq-irq-add-moved_masked_irq.patch genirq-x86_64-irq-reenable-migrating-irqs-to-other-cpus.patch genirq-msi-simplify-msi-enable-and-disable.patch genirq-msi-make-the-msi-boolean-tests-return-either-0-or-1.patch genirq-msi-implement-helper-functions-read_msi_msg-and-write_msi_msg.patch genirq-msi-refactor-the-msi_ops.patch genirq-msi-simplify-the-msi-irq-limit-policy.patch genirq-irq-add-a-dynamic-irq-creation-api.patch genirq-ia64-irq-dynamic-irq-support.patch genirq-i386-irq-dynamic-irq-support.patch genirq-x86_64-irq-dynamic-irq-support.patch genirq-msi-make-the-msi-code-irq-based-and-not-vector-based.patch genirq-x86_64-irq-move-msi-message-composition-into-io_apicc.patch genirq-i386-irq-move-msi-message-composition-into-io_apicc.patch genirq-msi-only-build-msi-apicc-on-ia64.patch genirq-msi-only-build-msi-apicc-on-ia64-fix.patch genirq-x86_64-irq-remove-the-msi-assumption-that-irq-==-vector.patch genirq-i386-irq-remove-the-msi-assumption-that-irq-==-vector.patch genirq-irq-remove-msi-hacks.patch genirq-irq-generalize-the-check-for-hardirq_bits.patch genirq-x86_64-irq-make-the-external-irq-handlers-report-their-vector-not-the-irq-number.patch genirq-x86_64-irq-make-vector_irq-per-cpu.patch genirq-x86_64-irq-make-vector_irq-per-cpu-fix.patch genirq-x86_64-irq-make-vector_irq-per-cpu-warning-fix.patch genirq-x86_64-irq-kill-gsi_irq_sharing.patch genirq-x86_64-irq-kill-irq-compression.patch add-hypertransport-capability-defines.patch add-hypertransport-capability-defines-fix.patch initial-generic-hypertransport-interrupt-support.patch initial-generic-hypertransport-interrupt-support-Kconfig-fix.patch msi-simplify-msi-sanity-checks-by-adding-with-generic-irq-code.patch msi-only-use-a-single-irq_chip-for-msi-interrupts.patch msi-refactor-and-move-the-msi-irq_chip-into-the-arch-code.patch msi-move-the-ia64-code-into-arch-ia64.patch htirq-tidy-up-the-htirq-code.patch genirq-clean-up-irq-flow-type-naming.patch pidhash-temporary-debug-checks.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html