[RFC] races in access to pci_devices

From: Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Date: Wed Nov 14 2001 - 23:00:26 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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