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From: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
To: Jirka Kosina <jikos@jikos.cz>
Cc: Patrick Mochel <mochel@osdl.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix bad locking in drivers/base/driver.c
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 11:00:59 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050124110059.W469@build.pdx.osdl.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0501241921310.5857@twin.jikos.cz>; from jikos@jikos.cz on Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 07:25:19PM +0100

* Jirka Kosina (jikos@jikos.cz) wrote:
> there has been (for quite some time) a bug in function driver_unregister() 
> - the lock/unlock sequence is protecting nothing and the actual 
> bus_remove_driver() is called outside critical section.

Re-read the comment.  It's intentionally done that way.

thanks,
-chris
-- 
Linux Security Modules     http://lsm.immunix.org     http://lsm.bkbits.net

  reply	other threads:[~2005-01-24 19:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-01-24 18:25 Jirka Kosina
2005-01-24 19:00 ` Chris Wright [this message]
2005-01-25  5:56 ` Greg KH
2005-01-25  7:32   ` Mike Waychison
2005-01-25 13:49     ` Bill Davidsen
2005-01-25 16:10       ` Mike Waychison
2005-01-25 16:27         ` Linus Torvalds
2005-01-25 19:19           ` Greg KH
2005-01-25 19:38             ` Thomas Gleixner
2005-02-02 23:35         ` Greg KH

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