Re: modular net drivers, take 2

[Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jun 21, 2000 at 02:44:03AM +0200, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Andi Kleen wrote:
> > 
> > On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 02:04:35PM +0200, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > >
> > > - sys_ioctl() and sys_delete_module() both already claim
> > >   the big lock, so where's the race anyway?  I feel I'm missing
> > >   something..
> > 
> > Ugh, I missed that. Ok, with that there is no race. Even better :-)
> 
> I think I lied.  Look at this:

Ok. Just let's hope that no non-ioctl function grabs first a different
lock (like the rtnl_lock) and then does a lock_kernel(). That would
give a nice deadlock race.


-Andi

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