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Re: biodone vs. BUFQ_PEEK



On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 01:18:28PM +0200, Juergen Hannken-Illjes wrote:
> While looking for something completely different I found this fragment of
> biodone():
> 
>       if (cpu_intr_p()) {
>               ...
>               TAILQ_INSERT_TAIL(&curcpu()->ci_data.cpu_biodone, bp, b_actq);
> 
> This should lead to the corruption of b_actq if the buffer was dequeued with
> BUFQ_PEEK() that leaves the buffer on the queue (using b_actq).
> 
> Confused,

I'm not sure you're supposed to call biodone on a buffer you got using
BUFQ_PEEK(), without dequeuing it. Do you see some places that do it ?

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