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To: "Alexey Dobriyan" <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Race condition: calling remove_proc_entry in cleanup_module (module_exit) while someone's using procfile
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On 9/4/07, Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> wrote:
> For regular proc files, this is fixed in 2.6.23-rc1 and later.

Thanks!

I see you've been working on it:
fix-rmmod-read-write-races-in-proc-entries...
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.22-rc6/2.6.22-rc6-mm1/broken-out/

((
older relevant posts:
http://groups.google.com/group/linux.kernel/browse_thread/thread/4c74bbea17727e6e/809c15bd0e6fa8f9?
http://groups.google.com/group/fa.linux.kernel/browse_thread/thread/fb03e1a500fcb258/563a7f11acdec992?
))

Thanks, Albert