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From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Ivo van Doorn <ivdoorn@gmail.com>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@insightbb.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	John Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>, Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz>,
	Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>,
	Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
	Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Subject: Re: [RFC] rfkill - Add support for input key to control wireless radio
Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2006 20:20:18 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1165173618.3233.243.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200612031936.34343.IvDoorn@gmail.com>

On Sun, 2006-12-03 at 19:36 +0100, Ivo van Doorn wrote:
> +static int rfkill_open(struct input_dev *dev)
> +{
> +       ((struct rfkill_key*)(dev->private))->open_count++;
> +       return 0;
> +} 

Hi,

this open_count thing smells fishy to me; what are the locking rules for
it? What guarantees that the readers of it don't get the value changed
underneath them between looking at the value and doing whatever action
depends on it's value ?

Greetings,
   Arjan van de Ven

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-12-03 19:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-12-03 18:36 Ivo van Doorn
2006-12-03 19:18 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-12-03 22:03   ` Ivo van Doorn
2006-12-03 19:20 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2006-12-03 22:05   ` Ivo van Doorn
2006-12-03 22:28   ` Ivo van Doorn
2006-12-05  0:18     ` Randy Dunlap
2006-12-05 21:20       ` Ivo van Doorn
2006-12-03 19:44 ` Dan Williams
2006-12-03 22:16   ` Ivo van Doorn
2006-12-04  8:53   ` Marcel Holtmann
2006-12-04 22:15 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-12-04 23:27   ` Ivo van Doorn
2006-12-06 14:37     ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-12-06 15:18       ` Dan Williams
2006-12-06 15:24         ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-12-06 19:31       ` Ivo van Doorn
2006-12-06 20:18         ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-12-06 21:41           ` Ivo van Doorn
2006-12-06 22:04             ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-12-07 21:53               ` Ivo van Doorn
2006-12-12  5:12                 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-12-12  7:47                   ` Ivo Van Doorn
2006-12-17 17:43                   ` Ivo van Doorn
2007-01-30 16:33                     ` Ivo van Doorn
2006-12-07 13:22             ` Dan Williams
2006-12-07 21:58               ` Ivo van Doorn
2006-12-06 22:05           ` Jiri Benc
2006-12-06 22:10             ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-12-05 10:32 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-12-05 21:21   ` Ivo van Doorn
2007-01-31  3:40 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-01-31 10:39   ` Ivo van Doorn
2007-01-31 11:20   ` Ivo van Doorn
2007-03-30  5:27     ` Dmitry Torokhov
2007-03-30  5:29       ` Dmitry Torokhov
2007-03-30 14:59       ` Ivo van Doorn
2007-03-30 15:28         ` Dmitry Torokhov
2007-03-30 17:13           ` Ivo van Doorn
2007-03-30 18:37             ` Dmitry Torokhov
2007-03-31 12:49               ` Ivo van Doorn
2007-04-02  4:38                 ` Dmitry Torokhov

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