1. 05 Jan, 2009 1 commit
    • Alain Knaff's avatar
      vfs: lseek(fd, 0, SEEK_CUR) race condition · 5b6f1eb9
      Alain Knaff authored
      This patch fixes a race condition in lseek. While it is expected that
      unpredictable behaviour may result while repositioning the offset of a
      file descriptor concurrently with reading/writing to the same file
      descriptor, this should not happen when merely *reading* the file
      descriptor's offset.
      
      Unfortunately, the only portable way in Unix to read a file
      descriptor's offset is lseek(fd, 0, SEEK_CUR); however executing this
      concurrently with read/write may mess up the position.
      
      [with fixes from akpm]
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAlain Knaff <alain@knaff.lu>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      5b6f1eb9
  2. 03 Jan, 2009 39 commits