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| author | Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> | 2005-09-16 19:28:13 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2005-09-17 11:50:02 -0700 |
| commit | 4fb3a53860cee2aaaf81186c451b7da0b95b45c1 (patch) | |
| tree | db66ba7d3886644729707586aed781c445e12c16 /arch/ia64 | |
| parent | af4e5a218e18ad588d60a4f9d6f8fb5db1a32587 (diff) | |
[PATCH] files: fix preemption issues
With the new fdtable locking rules, you have to protect fdtable with either
->file_lock or rcu_read_lock/unlock(). There are some places where we
aren't doing either. This patch fixes those places.
Signed-off-by: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/ia64')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/ia64/kernel/perfmon.c | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/ia64/kernel/perfmon.c b/arch/ia64/kernel/perfmon.c index af42cda6be8..d71731ee5b6 100644 --- a/arch/ia64/kernel/perfmon.c +++ b/arch/ia64/kernel/perfmon.c @@ -2218,12 +2218,13 @@ static void pfm_free_fd(int fd, struct file *file) { struct files_struct *files = current->files; - struct fdtable *fdt = files_fdtable(files); + struct fdtable *fdt; /* * there ie no fd_uninstall(), so we do it here */ spin_lock(&files->file_lock); + fdt = files_fdtable(files); rcu_assign_pointer(fdt->fd[fd], NULL); spin_unlock(&files->file_lock); |