Re: Linux 2.4.1-ac15

Philipp Rumpf (prumpf@mandrakesoft.com)
Mon, 19 Feb 2001 10:21:04 -0600 (CST)

On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Rusty had a patch that locked the module list properly IIRC.
>
> So does -ac now. I just take a spinlock for the modify cases that race
> against faults (including vmalloc faults from irq context)

so you hold a spinlock during copy_from_user ? Or did you change
sys_init_module/sys_create_modules semantics ?

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