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From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
To: David S Miller <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	torvalds@transmeta.com, Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove useless MOD_{INC,DEC}_USE_COUNT from sunrpc
Date: Sun, 4 May 2003 21:56:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <16053.28792.244921.560392@charged.uio.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1052075166.27465.12.camel@rth.ninka.net>


Actually. Looking around at the server side, there appear to be a
couple of potential problems too...

There don't seem to be any checks and balances to prevent the user
from removing the sunrpc module immediately after svc_create_thread()
gets called.
I presume that the call to lockd_up() in nfsd() will help (since that
calls rpciod_up() and hence MOD_INC_COUNT) but AFAICS there appears to
be plenty of possible races before we get to that point.

Cheers,
  Trond

  reply	other threads:[~2003-05-04 19:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-05-04 17:14 [PATCH] remove useless MOD_{INC,DEC}_USE_COUNT from sunrpc Christoph Hellwig
2003-05-04 17:37 ` Trond Myklebust
2003-05-04 18:36   ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-05-04 18:46     ` Trond Myklebust
2003-05-04 18:53       ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-05-04 19:00         ` Trond Myklebust
2003-05-04 19:06           ` David S. Miller
2003-05-04 19:56             ` Trond Myklebust [this message]
2003-05-04 20:14               ` Trond Myklebust
2003-05-04 21:00             ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-05-04 20:15               ` David S. Miller
2003-05-05  8:29                 ` Christoph Hellwig

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