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



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