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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Sound updating, security of strlcpy and a question on pci v unload
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 17:08:58 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030712000858.GA23659@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1057943137.20637.27.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk>

On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 06:05:37PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> 
> Secondly a question. pci_driver structures seem to lack an owner: field.
> What stops a 2.5 module unload occuring while pci is calling the probe
> function having seen a new device ? 

The pci subsystem rw semaphore.

thanks,

greg k-h

  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-07-11 23:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-07-11 17:05 Sound updating, security of strlcpy and a question on pci v unload Alan Cox
2003-07-11 19:04 ` Mikulas Patocka
2003-07-11 21:45   ` SECURITY - data leakage due to incorrect strncpy implementation Alan Cox
2003-07-11 22:10     ` Alan Cox
2003-07-11 23:49       ` Paul Mackerras
2003-07-12 21:28       ` Horst von Brand
2003-07-13  8:02         ` Alan Cox
2003-07-11 22:44     ` Linus Torvalds
2003-07-11 22:50       ` Alan Cox
2004-01-29  3:11         ` Pete Zaitcev
2003-07-11 22:37   ` Sound updating, security of strlcpy and a question on pci v unload Mitchell Blank Jr
2003-07-12  0:08 ` Greg KH [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-07-12 14:03 Albert Cahalan

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