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From: Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com>
To: Louis Rilling <Louis.Rilling@kerlabs.com>
Cc: ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] configfs: module reference counting rules
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:36:14 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080616193614.GB6441@mail.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080616181428.GW30804@localhost>

On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 08:14:28PM +0200, Louis Rilling wrote:
> With a preemptible kernel, after module_put(self) the few assembly instructions
> cleaning up the stack before returning to the caller can be called after the
> memory allocated for the module has been freed. Which will make the kernel
> crash.

	Ahh, but if you are running a preemptible kernel, you've already
made your first mistake :-)

Joel

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Joel Becker
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      reply	other threads:[~2008-06-16 19:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-12 23:54 Louis Rilling
2008-06-13  3:33 ` Joel Becker
2008-06-13  9:51   ` Louis Rilling
2008-06-13 20:26     ` Joel Becker
2008-06-13 22:27       ` Louis Rilling
2008-06-14  8:47         ` Joel Becker
2008-06-16 12:39           ` Louis Rilling
2008-06-16 18:06             ` Joel Becker
2008-06-16 18:14               ` Louis Rilling
2008-06-16 19:36                 ` Joel Becker [this message]

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