From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6 must-fix list, v3
Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 09:57:57 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030514165757.GA2378@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030514032712.0c7fa0d1.akpm@digeo.com>
On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 03:27:12AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> Quite a lot of changes here. Mostly additions, but some things have been
> crossed off.
>
> Also at ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/must-fix
Here's a patch against must-fix-3.txt that consolodates the 4 different
places people are complaining about a lack of PCI device locking, and
put the bugzilla bug number for it.
As soon as I finish this OLS paper, I'm going to work on finally fixing
this...
thanks,
greg k-h
--- must-fix-3.txt.original Wed May 14 09:46:43 2003
+++ must-fix-3.txt Wed May 14 09:52:47 2003
@@ -115,7 +115,11 @@
- alan: Some cardbus crashes the system
-- alan: Hotplug locking is hosed
+- We have multiple drivers walking the pci device lists and also using
+ things like pci_find_device in unsafe ways with no refcounting. I think
+ we have to make pci_find_device etc refcount somewhere and add
+ pci_device_put as was done with networking.
+ http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=709
drivers/pcmcia/
---------------
@@ -567,17 +571,8 @@
drivers
=======
-- Alan: We have multiple drivers walking the pci device lists and also
- using things like pci_find_device in unsafe ways with no refcounting. I
- think we have to make pci_find_device etc refcount somewhere and add
- pci_device_put as was done with networking.
-
- Some network drivers don't even build
-- Alan: PCI hotplug is unsafe (locking is totally screwed)
-
-- Ditto cardbus
-
- Alan: Cardbus/PCMCIA requires all Russell's stuff is merged to do
multiheader right and so on
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-14 16:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-14 10:27 2.6 must-fix list, v3 Andrew Morton
2003-05-14 10:27 ` Andrew Morton
2003-05-14 10:28 ` Jens Axboe
2003-05-14 16:41 ` Tom Rini
2003-05-14 16:57 ` Greg KH [this message]
2003-05-14 17:10 ` Matt Mackall
2003-05-14 17:44 ` Andrew Morton
2003-05-29 19:42 ` [PATCH] write errors [1/3] async-write-errors Matt Mackall
2003-05-29 19:44 ` [PATCH] write errors [2/3] flags Matt Mackall
2003-05-29 19:45 ` [PATCH] write errors [3/3] fs-writepage-truncate Matt Mackall
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2003-05-14 21:12 2.6 must-fix list, v3 Jean Tourrilhes
2003-05-17 16:58 ` Pavel Machek
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