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SubjectRe: Ok, making ready for pre-2.4 and code-freeze..yd
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> On Tue, 14 Dec 1999 21:04:01 -0500 (EST), 
> Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> wrote:
> >Anyuser can crash the code due to module races (eg open)
>
> Details please and I'll fix it.

rdtsc
open /dev/somefile [loads module]
close it
rdtsc
compute unload time
at unload time open it again

After enough goes the machine calls the open method of the driver as the
driver is unloaded. The MOD_INC_USE_COUNT in foo_open is too late to stop
disaster


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