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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Cc: arnd@arndb.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [char-misc-next V3] mei: add reference counting for me clients
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2014 15:54:39 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141103235439.GA26158@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1415004125-5467-1-git-send-email-tomas.winkler@intel.com>

On Mon, Nov 03, 2014 at 10:42:05AM +0200, Tomas Winkler wrote:
> To support dynamic addition/remove we add reference
> counter.

What is keeping two different threads / cpus from grabbing a reference
at the same time the other one is dropping it?

You have a list here, with no locking, right?  You also don't have any
locking for your kref, which isn't good at all...

Please audit and fix up.

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2014-11-03 23:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-03  8:42 [char-misc-next V3] mei: add reference counting for me clients Tomas Winkler
2014-11-03 23:54 ` Greg KH [this message]
2014-11-04  5:22   ` Winkler, Tomas
2014-11-06  2:20     ` Greg KH
2014-11-06  8:40       ` Winkler, Tomas
2014-11-06 15:58         ` Greg KH
2014-11-06 19:05           ` Winkler, Tomas
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2015-01-10 22:07 Tomas Winkler

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