linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/5] uio: Don't clear driver data

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]

Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1009172232530.2416@localhost6.localdomain6>
Date:	Fri, 17 Sep 2010 22:33:57 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>,
	"Hans J. Koch" <hjk@...utronix.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] uio: Don't clear driver data



On Tue, 14 Sep 2010, Eric W. Biederman wrote:

> 
> Currently uio sets it's driver data to NULL just as it is unregistering
> attributes.  sysfs maks the guaranatee that it will not call attributes
  
  s/maks/makes/

> after device_destroy is called so this is unncessary and leads to lots
> of unnecessary code in uio.c
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@...stanetworks.com>

Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>

--
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/