From: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.name>
To: J <jhnlmn@yahoo.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Possible race condition in usb-serial.c
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 21:15:44 +0100 (MET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200612192113.40102.oliver@neukum.name> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <247966.89742.qm@web32915.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Am Dienstag, 19. Dezember 2006 20:21 schrieb J:
> Hi,
> I read usb-serial.c code (in 2.6.19) and I cannot
> figure out how it is
> supposed to prevent race condition and premature
> deletion of usb_serial
> structure. I see that the code attempts to protect
> usb_serial by ref
> counting, but it does not appear to be correct. I am
> not 100% sure in my
> findings, so I will appreciate if somebody will double
> check.
This code depends on protection from BKL.
Regards
Oliver
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-19 20:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-19 19:21 Possible race condition in usb-serial.c J
2006-12-19 20:15 ` Oliver Neukum [this message]
2006-12-19 22:33 ` J
2006-12-20 9:47 ` Oliver Neukum
2006-12-20 15:10 ` [linux-usb-devel] " Alan Stern
2006-12-20 21:02 ` Oliver Neukum
2006-12-20 19:32 ` J
2006-12-20 20:43 ` Greg KH
2006-12-20 22:39 ` J
2006-12-20 22:52 ` Greg KH
2006-12-20 20:43 ` Oliver Neukum
2006-12-20 22:24 ` J
2006-12-22 18:14 ` Oliver Neukum
2006-12-22 19:08 ` J
2006-12-22 19:59 ` Oliver Neukum
2006-12-22 20:51 ` J
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