Re: Possible race condition in usb-serial.c

Oliver Neukum
2006-12-22T18:12:54Z

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