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Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 09:38:39 +0100
From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: Linux-2.4.0-test10
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On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 08:55:13PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> 	What about the fact anyone can crash a box using ioctls on net
> 	devices and waiting for an unload - was this fixed ?

The ioctls of network devices are generally unsafe on SMP, because
they run with kernel lock dropped now but are mostly not safe to do so. 

-Andi
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