Messages in this thread |  | | From | kuznet@ms2 ... | Subject | Re: Linux-2.4.0-test10 | Date | Wed, 1 Nov 2000 21:08:11 +0300 (MSK) |
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Hello!
> On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 08:55:13PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > > What about the fact anyone can crash a box using ioctls on net > > devices and waiting for an unload - was this fixed ?
What do you mean?
If I understood you correclty, this has been fixed in early 2.3 and never reappeared since that time.
> The ioctls of network devices are generally unsafe on SMP, because > they run with kernel lock dropped now but are mostly not safe to do so.
Andi, pleeeease, stop FUDing.
If you see some bug, fix it. I do not see.
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