Re: [PATCH] 2.4.18 Eicon ISDN driver fix.

Dave Jones (davej@suse.de)
Tue, 26 Feb 2002 20:54:22 +0100


On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 08:26:18PM +0100, petter wahlman wrote:
> +++ linux-2.4.18-pw/drivers/isdn/eicon/eicon_mod.c Mon Feb 25

> - if (user)
> + if (user) {
> + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&eicon_lock,
> flags);
> copy_to_user(p, skb->data, cnt);
> + spin_lock_irqsave(&eicon_lock, flags);
> + }

What happens if something else adds/removes to card->statq, or
frees the skb after you drop the lock? I'm not familiar with
this code, but from a quick look, it looks like this introduces
a race no ?

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