Paul Walmsley wrote: > Hello Dmitry, > > On Tue, 19 Aug 2008, Dmitry Baryshkov wrote: > >> There is one major flaw IMO in this code. Please correct me if I'm >> wrong: Driver A: powerdomain_register() >> Driver B: powerdomain_get() >> Driver A: powerdomain_unregister() >> >> Then Driver B has a reference to unregistered domain. And as >> powerdomains lack any type of refcounting this can lead to any type of >> memory access bugs if Driver A is unloaded from the kernel. > > At this point, only OMAP kernel init code registers powerdomains in > arch/arm/mach-omap2/io.c. It's not intended that driver code will > manipulate or even know about these.
Anyway, this type of powerdomain_unregister() is asking for problems. Either unregistering should be disallowed, or proper reference counting should be implemented IMO. -- With best wishes Dmitry -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
