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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Andre Hedrick <andre@linux-ide.org>
Cc: rusty@rustcorp.com.au, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Another idea for simplifying locking in kernel/module.c
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 21:15:24 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030110102144.464272C0B7@lists.samba.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 10 Jan 2003 01:38:56 -0800." <Pine.LNX.4.10.10301100138270.31168-100000@master.linux-ide.org>

In message <Pine.LNX.4.10.10301100138270.31168-100000@master.linux-ide.org> you
 write:
> 
> I'll bite .... what the flip is [unsafe] ??

Use of obsolete (racy) module reference count interface. ie. someone's
upping the reference count with __MOD_INC_USE_COUNT() or
MOD_INC_USE_COUNT(), not "try_module_get()", so we can't tell them
that the module is going away so they couldn't get a reference.

Going through and fixing these up is generally fairly easy.

Hope that clarifies,
Rusty.
--
  Anyone who quotes me in their sig is an idiot. -- Rusty Russell.

  reply	other threads:[~2003-01-10 10:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-01-10  9:10 Another idea for simplifying locking in kernel/module.c Adam J. Richter
2003-01-10  9:38 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-01-10 10:15   ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2003-01-11 14:46   ` Bill Davidsen
2003-01-10 10:11 ` Rusty Russell
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-01-10 12:18 Adam J. Richter
2003-01-10 11:16 Adam J. Richter
2003-01-11  3:53 ` Rusty Russell
2003-01-10  9:38 Adam J. Richter
2003-01-07  8:53 Adam J. Richter
2003-01-09 20:41 ` Max Krasnyansky
2003-01-07  2:19 Adam J. Richter
2003-01-08 11:46 ` Rusty Russell

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