[LTP] [PATCH] inotify07: Add test for kernel crash during event notification
Jan Kara
jack@suse.cz
Wed May 23 13:20:32 CEST 2018
On Wed 23-05-18 13:08:34, Cyril Hrubis wrote:
> Hi!
> > When a removal of the last mark on inode / vfsmount races with a
> > notification about new event on that object, the kernel can crash. Test
> > for this failure. The problem was fixed by kernel commit d90a10e2444b
> > "fsnotify: Fix fsnotify_mark_connector race".
>
> Pushed as inotify09 with following changes:
>
> * I've changed the test to use two threads and fzsync synchronization
> library we implemented especially for triggering races between
> syscalls
Thanks! I'll check how that is used.
> * Changed the licence to GPLv2+ which is default for LTP, I hope that
> you do not mind
Sure, I'm fine with that.
> * Added .gitignore and runtest entries
Bah, keep forgetting about that. Thanks for fixing that up.
Honza
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Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>
SUSE Labs, CR
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