Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 14 Nov 2001 21:24:41 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] races in access to pci_devices |
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On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 11:00:26PM -0500, Alexander Viro wrote: > Linus, as far as I can see there's no exclusion between > the code that walks pci_devices and pci_insert_device(). It's > not a big deal wrt security (not many laptops with remote access) > but...
It's a bigger deal with large servers that have PCI Hotplug controllers.
> What locking is supposed to be there?
I'll add a lock to keep the problem from happening.
thanks,
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