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Commit 8019ad13 authored by Peter Zijlstra's avatar Peter Zijlstra
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futex: Fix inode life-time issue



As reported by Jann, ihold() does not in fact guarantee inode
persistence. And instead of making it so, replace the usage of inode
pointers with a per boot, machine wide, unique inode identifier.

This sequence number is global, but shared (file backed) futexes are
rare enough that this should not become a performance issue.

Reported-by: default avatarJann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Suggested-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
parent 98d54f81
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