From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Brian Russell <brian.russell@brocade.com>
Cc: "Hans J. Koch" <hjk@hansjkoch.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] uio: Fix uio driver to refcount device
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2015 13:18:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150320121812.GA26764@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <550B0D90.2010202@brocade.com>
On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 05:55:28PM +0000, Brian Russell wrote:
> Protect uio driver from its owner being unplugged while there are open fds.
> Embed struct device in struct uio_device, use refcounting on device, free
> uio_device on release.
> info struct passed in uio_register_device can be freed on unregister, so null
> out the field in uio_unregister_device and check accesses.
>
> Signed-off-by: Brian Russell <brussell@brocade.com>
> ---
> drivers/uio/uio.c | 58 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------
> include/linux/uio_driver.h | 2 +-
> 2 files changed, 40 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
This patch is line-wrapped and can not be applied :(
Please fix up your email client and resend. I've applied the first
patch, which worked just fine, no need to resend it.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-03-20 14:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-19 17:55 [PATCH 2/2] uio: Fix uio driver to refcount device Brian Russell
2015-03-20 12:18 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2015-03-20 14:55 ` Brian Russell
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