On Wed, 8 Feb 2006, Pete Zaitcev wrote: > I'm horribly busy at work, so I thought I'd just throw this here in case > anyone is interested. The pl2303 fails to submit an interrupt (probably > a schedule problem in a hub), user does "rmmod pl2303"... ta daaa. > Looks like a case of use-after-free.
I'd put the emphasis the other way: It looks like free-before-finished-using. As in, something is doing an extra put or neglecting to do a get. The biggest problem with reference-counting schemes is that they do a very good job of obscuring and concealing bugs that cause reference counts to go wrong. Alan Stern ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ [email protected] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
