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From: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
To: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: "Jann Horn" <[email protected]>,
	"Thomas Gleixner" <[email protected]>,
	"Ingo Molnar" <[email protected]>,
	"Darren Hart" <[email protected]>,
	"Davidlohr Bueso" <[email protected]>,
	"André Almeida" <[email protected]>,
	"kernel list" <[email protected]>,
	"Pavel Begunkov" <[email protected]>,
	io-uring <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: futex+io_uring: futex_q::task can maybe be dangling (but is not actually accessed, so it's fine)
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2025 07:41:04 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

On 1/13/25 7:38 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 10, 2025 at 08:33:34PM -0700, Jens Axboe wrote:
> 
>> @@ -548,7 +549,7 @@ void __futex_queue(struct futex_q *q, struct futex_hash_bucket *hb)
>>  
>>  	plist_node_init(&q->list, prio);
>>  	plist_add(&q->list, &hb->chain);
>> -	q->task = current;
>> +	q->task = task;
>>  }
>>  
>>  /**
> 
> The alternative is, I suppose, to move the q->task assignment out to
> these two callsites instead. Thomas, any opinions?

That suggestion was posed in my reply as well, but I didn't spend the
time checking if it was safe/feasible. If you/Thomas think it's safe, we
can certainly do that instead. But I'd much rather you make that call
than me :-)

-- 
Jens Axboe

  reply	other threads:[~2025-01-13 14:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-01-10 22:26 futex+io_uring: futex_q::task can maybe be dangling (but is not actually accessed, so it's fine) Jann Horn
2025-01-11  3:33 ` Jens Axboe
2025-01-13 13:53   ` Jann Horn
2025-01-13 14:38   ` Peter Zijlstra
2025-01-13 14:41     ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2025-01-15 10:20     ` Thomas Gleixner
2025-01-15 15:23       ` Jens Axboe
2025-01-15 15:32         ` Jens Axboe
2025-01-15 17:05           ` Thomas Gleixner
2025-01-15 17:07             ` Jens Axboe

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