Messages in this thread | | | From | Rusty Russell <> | Subject | Re: Another idea for simplifying locking in kernel/module.c | Date | Fri, 10 Jan 2003 21:15:24 +1100 |
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In message <Pine.LNX.4.10.10301100138270.31168-100000@master.linux-ide.org> you write: > > I'll bite .... what the flip is [unsafe] ??
Use of obsolete (racy) module reference count interface. ie. someone's upping the reference count with __MOD_INC_USE_COUNT() or MOD_INC_USE_COUNT(), not "try_module_get()", so we can't tell them that the module is going away so they couldn't get a reference.
Going through and fixing these up is generally fairly easy.
Hope that clarifies, Rusty. -- Anyone who quotes me in their sig is an idiot. -- Rusty Russell. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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