linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] wireless: wl12xx, fix lock imbalance

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Mon, 13 Jul 2009 23:49:15 +0200
From:	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>
To:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] wireless: wl12xx, fix lock imbalance

On 07/13/2009 11:44 PM, Jiri Slaby wrote:
>> I've had local hacks
>> many times to make sparse aware of mutexes, is there a reason they are
>> not annotated with __acquire(s)/__release(s) like spinlocks etc.?
> 
> Mutexes are often locked/unlocked interprocedural which I think sparse
> can't do much about.

(which means it has high false positive rate in those cases)
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/