Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Wed, 14 May 2003 09:57:57 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: 2.6 must-fix list, v3 |
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On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 03:27:12AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Quite a lot of changes here. Mostly additions, but some things have been > crossed off. > > Also at ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/must-fix
Here's a patch against must-fix-3.txt that consolodates the 4 different places people are complaining about a lack of PCI device locking, and put the bugzilla bug number for it.
As soon as I finish this OLS paper, I'm going to work on finally fixing this...
thanks,
greg k-h
--- must-fix-3.txt.original Wed May 14 09:46:43 2003 +++ must-fix-3.txt Wed May 14 09:52:47 2003 @@ -115,7 +115,11 @@ - alan: Some cardbus crashes the system -- alan: Hotplug locking is hosed +- We have multiple drivers walking the pci device lists and also using + things like pci_find_device in unsafe ways with no refcounting. I think + we have to make pci_find_device etc refcount somewhere and add + pci_device_put as was done with networking. + http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=709 drivers/pcmcia/ --------------- @@ -567,17 +571,8 @@ drivers ======= -- Alan: We have multiple drivers walking the pci device lists and also - using things like pci_find_device in unsafe ways with no refcounting. I - think we have to make pci_find_device etc refcount somewhere and add - pci_device_put as was done with networking. - - Some network drivers don't even build -- Alan: PCI hotplug is unsafe (locking is totally screwed) - -- Ditto cardbus - - Alan: Cardbus/PCMCIA requires all Russell's stuff is merged to do multiheader right and so on - 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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