From: "Hans J. Koch" <hjk@linutronix.de>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>,
"Hans J. Koch" <hjk@linutronix.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] uio: Implement hotunplug support, using libunload
Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2010 14:34:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101004123447.GB9961@silverbox.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1iq1s86jk.fsf_-_@fess.ebiederm.org>
On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 03:49:03PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>
> With this change it is possible to remove a module that implements
> a uio device, or to remove the underlying hardware device of a uio
> device withot crashing the kernel, or causing user space more problems
> than just an I/O error.
Well, that I/O error can also be a segfault if userspace accesses
memory previously mmap'ed. So a userspace program needs to properly
handle -EIO from read(), and has to handle SIG_SEGV. This should also
be mentioned in Documentation/DocBook/uio-howto.tmpl.
Or do you have a better solution?
Thanks,
Hans
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-04 12:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-14 18:35 [PATCH 0/5] Uio enhancements Eric W. Biederman
2010-09-14 18:36 ` [PATCH 1/5] uio: Fix lack of locking in init_uio_class Eric W. Biederman
2010-09-17 20:32 ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-09-17 20:49 ` Hans J. Koch
2010-09-14 18:36 ` [PATCH 2/5] uio: Don't clear driver data Eric W. Biederman
2010-09-17 20:33 ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-09-17 20:50 ` Hans J. Koch
2010-09-14 18:37 ` [PATCH 3/5] uio: Cleanup irq handling Eric W. Biederman
2010-09-17 20:34 ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-09-17 20:51 ` Hans J. Koch
2010-09-14 18:38 ` [PATCH 4/5] uio: Support 2^MINOR_BITS minors Eric W. Biederman
2010-09-17 20:36 ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-09-17 20:57 ` Hans J. Koch
2010-09-17 21:09 ` Greg KH
2010-09-21 21:08 ` Greg KH
2010-09-21 21:38 ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-09-21 21:56 ` Greg KH
2010-09-21 22:21 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-09-21 22:26 ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-09-14 18:38 ` [PATCH 5/5] uio: Statically allocate uio_class and use class .dev_attrs Eric W. Biederman
2010-09-17 20:37 ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-09-17 20:57 ` Hans J. Koch
2010-09-17 20:59 ` [PATCH 0/5] Uio enhancements Hans J. Koch
2010-09-20 7:19 ` [PATCH 0/5] uio hotplug support Eric W. Biederman
2010-09-20 7:21 ` [PATCH 1/5] uio: Simplify the lifetime logic of struct uio_device Eric W. Biederman
2010-09-20 7:21 ` [PATCH 2/5] uio: Kill unused vma_count Eric W. Biederman
2010-09-20 7:23 ` [PATCH 3/5] uio: Remove unused uio_info mmap method Eric W. Biederman
2010-09-20 7:23 ` [PATCH 4/5] libunload: A library to help remove open files Eric W. Biederman
2010-09-20 7:24 ` [PATCH 5/5] uio: Implement hotunplug support, using libunload Eric W. Biederman
2010-09-24 10:55 ` Hans J. Koch
2010-09-24 17:11 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-09-25 2:06 ` [PATCH] uio: Fix accidentally changed return value in uio_read Eric W. Biederman
2010-09-24 10:45 ` [PATCH 0/5] uio hotplug support Hans J. Koch
2010-09-24 17:14 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-09-24 17:31 ` Hans J. Koch
2010-09-24 18:38 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-09-25 0:05 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-09-25 0:33 ` Greg KH
2010-09-25 1:54 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-09-26 19:21 ` Greg KH
2010-09-26 22:46 ` [PATCH 1/5] uio: Simplify the lifetime logic of struct uio_device Eric W. Biederman
2010-09-30 22:00 ` Hans J. Koch
2010-09-26 22:47 ` [PATCH 2/5] uio: Kill unused vma_count Eric W. Biederman
2010-09-26 22:48 ` [PATCH 3/5] uio: Remove unused uio_info mmap method Eric W. Biederman
2010-10-04 9:26 ` Hans J. Koch
2010-09-26 22:48 ` [PATCH 4/5] libunload: A library to help remove open files Eric W. Biederman
2010-10-04 9:56 ` Hans J. Koch
2010-09-26 22:49 ` [PATCH 5/5] uio: Implement hotunplug support, using libunload Eric W. Biederman
2010-10-04 10:47 ` Hans J. Koch
2010-10-04 12:34 ` Hans J. Koch [this message]
2010-10-04 18:19 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-10-04 18:52 ` Hans J. Koch
2010-09-26 22:49 ` [PATCH 6/5] uio: Fix accidentally changed return value in uio_read Eric W. Biederman
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