Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 23 Aug 2003 00:34:47 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2.6] 2/3 Serio: possible race in handle_events |
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Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@ameritech.net> wrote: > > Do you think we should introduce allocate_serio/free_serio pair for dynamically > allocated serios; free_serio would scan event_list and invalidate events that > refer to freed serio?
I don't understand the subsystem well enough to say. But if we are receiving events which refer to an already-freed serio then something is very broken. We should be draining all those events before allowing the original object to be freed up.
Let's wait for Vojtech's comments.
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