Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 29 Oct 2000 03:10:16 +1100 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PROPOSED PATCH] ATM refcount + firestream |
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Brian Gerst wrote: > > With or without your patch, the network ioctls are unsafe, since they > don't currently do refcounting at all. Adding it in the layer above the > driver is the easier and cleaner solution.
As long as the drivers use unregister_netdevice() then that's fairly easy to fix within the netdevice layer. Just do a dev_hold()/dev_put() within dev_ifsioc(). - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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