[RFC] races in access to pci_devices
Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Wed, 14 Nov 2001 23:00:26 -0500 (EST)
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...
What locking is supposed to be there?
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