Re: Linux 2.4 status page

From: Greg KH (greg@kroah.com)
Date: Fri Aug 11 2000 - 18:45:29 EST

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On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 05:28:15PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> * Misc locking problems
> + drivers/usb/*.c
> o unsafe sleep_on users
> o usbpl_{read,write}(): on UP concurrent read/write
> operations could corrupt the urb structures if
> copy_to_user sleeps, on SMP it's worse.
> o do_execve (Al Viro, reported by Manfred)
> o misc ext2 races

Could someone please explain to me (and the linux-usb-devel list if you
want) what those last two items are in the context of the usb system?

And further clarification on the first two points would be nice too (I
think I understand, but I will not refuse any advice.)

thanks,

greg k-h
(working to fix all the usb bugs that I can...)

-- greg@(kroah|wirex).com

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