From: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
To: "Dmitry Torokhov" <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: chrdev_open lifetime question
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 18:02:25 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070319180225.4638bc80.zaitcev@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d120d5000703071423n11ade9d7n1852296d70b53d62@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, 7 Mar 2007 17:23:05 -0500, "Dmitry Torokhov" <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> wrote:
> It seems that if a process keeps a character device open then other
> processes will also be able to get into filp->f_op->open(inode,filp)
> in chrdev_open() even after a driver called cdev_del() as part of its
> unwind procedure. Is this correct or am I missing something?
I see no replies in the archives. Have you got any private ones?
Also, what's the context?
-- Pete
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-20 1:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-07 22:23 chrdev_open lifetime question Dmitry Torokhov
2007-03-20 1:02 ` Pete Zaitcev [this message]
2007-03-25 5:36 ` Dmitry Torokhov
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