Re: [PATCH] reducing overheads in fget/fput

[Dipankar Sarma]

On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 08:32:28PM +0100, [e-mail] wrote:
> You are.  Have a process share file table at the time of call and
> have its sibling die in the middle.  Oops - condition that had
> been true at time of fget_light() (->files->count > 1) is false
> at the time we fput_light().  Have fun - we had just leaked a
> reference to struct file.

That shouldn't be very difficult to fix. For the fget_light/fput_light
pair in a syscall, we make the files->count == 1 check only once at the 
beginning. Do you see a problem with that ?

Thanks
Dipankar