From: Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>
To: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
sekharan@us.ibm.com, ak@suse.de,
Kernel development list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/7]: Fix for unsafe notifier chain
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 16:02:30 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7639.1134450150@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 08 Dec 2005 14:53:56 CDT." <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.0512081438050.4934-100000@iolanthe.rowland.org>
On Thu, 8 Dec 2005 14:53:56 -0500 (EST),
Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> wrote:
>The code below defines three new data structures: atomic_notifier_head,
>blocking_notifier_head, and raw_notifier_head. The first two correspond
>to what we had in the earlier patch, and raw_notifier_head is almost the
>same as the current implementation, with no locking or protection at all.
Acked-By: Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>
I do not care how this problem is fixed, I am happy with any solution that
(a) stops notify chains being racy and
(b) allows users of notify_die() to be safely unloaded.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-13 5:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-07 20:12 [RFC][PATCH 0/7]: Fix for unsafe notifier chain Alan Stern
2005-12-07 23:36 ` Andrew Morton
2005-12-08 19:53 ` Alan Stern
2005-12-13 5:02 ` Keith Owens [this message]
2005-12-13 15:06 ` Alan Stern
2005-12-13 23:36 ` Andrew Morton
2005-12-09 4:50 ` Keith Owens
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2005-11-19 2:19 Chandra Seetharaman
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