race condition in knote deletion?

Matthew Dillon dillon at apollo.backplane.com
Tue Feb 1 17:29:09 PST 2011


:        kn->kn_status |= KN_DELETING | KN_REPROCESS;
:
:So  wouldn't another cpu running knote_release() while the 1st one
:sleeps call knote_detach_and_drop() too
:causing a crash when the 1st cpu resumes?

    Only the thread which set KN_PROCESSING can release the knote,
    so it shouldn't be possible.  Other threads will see that KN_PROCESSING
    is already set and not try to do anything drastic to the knote.
    
					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon at backplane.com>





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