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From: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
To: J <jhnlmn@yahoo.com>, Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Possible race condition in usb-serial.c
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 19:14:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200612221914.41111.oliver@neukum.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <224234.7202.qm@web32911.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Am Mittwoch, 20. Dezember 2006 23:24 schrieb J:
> > Could you test the attached patch against 2.6?
> 
> Alas, I only have an old 2.4 right now.
> May be I will install 2.6 later (in few weeks).
> Currently I am just trying to read 2.6 code with my
> eyes.
> 
> I studied the patch, which you sent.
> I don't see obvious errors, but, in my opinion, it is
> not completely perfect.

Please disregard the patch. I overlooked serial_read_proc().
This problem will need some deeper surgery probably involving
removal of the refcounting.

But not during Christmas.

	Regards
		Oliver

  reply	other threads:[~2006-12-22 18:12 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
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         ` Oliver Neukum
2006-12-20 22:24           ` J
2006-12-22 18:14             ` Oliver Neukum [this message]
2006-12-22 19:08               ` J
2006-12-22 19:59                 ` Oliver Neukum
2006-12-22 20:51                   ` J
2006-12-20 20:43         ` Greg KH
2006-12-20 22:39           ` J
2006-12-20 22:52             ` Greg KH

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