linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v7] uio: Fix uio driver to refcount device

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Date:	Thu, 19 Mar 2015 16:15:40 +0100
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	Brian Russell <brian.russell@...cade.com>
Cc:	"Hans J. Koch" <hjk@...sjkoch.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7] uio: Fix uio driver to refcount device

On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 03:05:15PM +0000, Brian Russell wrote:
> Protect uio driver from its owner being unplugged while there are open fds.
> Embed struct device in struct uio_device, use refcounting on device, free uio_device on release.
> info struct passed in uio_register_device can be freed on unregister, so null out the field in
> uio_unregister_device and check accesses.

Minor nit, changelogs need to be linewrapped at 72 columns, if your
editor is sane, it should have warned you about this :)

thanks,

greg k-h
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