Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964920AbVI0NAF (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Sep 2005 09:00:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964921AbVI0NAF (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Sep 2005 09:00:05 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:25021 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964920AbVI0NAB (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Sep 2005 09:00:01 -0400 Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 13:59:56 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Greg KH Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Harald Welte , linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, vendor-sec@lst.de, security@linux.kernel.org Subject: Re: [vendor-sec] [BUG/PATCH/RFC] Oops while completing async USB via usbdevio Message-ID: <20050927125956.GA29861@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Greg KH , Harald Welte , linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, vendor-sec@lst.de, security@linux.kernel.org References: <20050925151330.GL731@sunbeam.de.gnumonks.org> <20050927080413.GA13149@kroah.com> <20050927124846.GA29649@infradead.org> <20050927125755.GA10738@kroah.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050927125755.GA10738@kroah.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 596 Lines: 15 On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 05:57:55AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > Earlier in this thread, on these mailing lists. > > I've included it below too. Ah, it was last week and I missed it. sorry. This is more than messy. usbfs is the only user of SI_ASYNCIO, and the way it uses it is more than messy. Why can't USB simply use the proper AIO infrastructure? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/