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From: Zack Weinberg <zackw@panix.com>
Date: Mon, 07 May 2018 02:49:00 -0000
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 03/21] nptl: Fix Race conditions in pthread
 cancellation (BZ#12683)
To: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
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On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 8:25 AM, Adhemerval Zanella
<adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org> wrote:
> On 27/04/2018 09:20, Zack Weinberg wrote:
>> 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...
>
> Thanks for bring this up. No, I haven't received any review so far about it.

Let's try to unjam this.  I will post reviews for patches 1, 2, 3, 4,
and 6 shortly.  Unfortunately, all of the other patches require review
by architecture experts; I don't know enough about the low-level ABI
details for anything other than plain x86-32 and -64.

zw