Re: [PATCH 0/4 V2] Use get_online_cpus to avoid races involving CPU hotplug

From: Rusty Russell
Date: Sat Sep 01 2012 - 08:42:53 EST


Silas Boyd-Wickizer <sbw@xxxxxxx> writes:

> Hello,
>
> This is the second version of the patches to fix races described in:
>
> https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/linux.kernel/iSUDr94Qehc
>
> The changes in this version are:
>
> * fix commit log typo;
> * prevent a race in via_cputemp_exit;
> * and a new patch that prevents races during init/exit in
> drivers/hwmon/coretemp.c.

Hi Silas,

Good work! How did you find these?

Cheers,
Rusty.

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