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Re: [PATCH v2 03/21] nptl: Fix Race conditions in pthread cancellation (BZ#12683)
- From: Zack Weinberg <zackw at panix dot com>
- To: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval dot zanella at linaro dot org>
- Cc: GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2018 08:20:49 -0400
- Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 03/21] nptl: Fix Race conditions in pthread cancellation (BZ#12683)
- References: <1519679016-12241-1-git-send-email-adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org> <1519679016-12241-4-git-send-email-adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 4:03 PM, Adhemerval Zanella
<adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org> wrote:
> This patches fixes some race conditions in NPTL cancellation code by
> redefining how cancellable syscalls are defined and handled. Current
> approach is to enable asynchronous cancellation prior to making the syscall
> and restore the previous cancellation type once the syscall returns.
Did these patches ever get reviewed/committed? #12683 has been
festering for a long time...
zw