Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 06:09:38 -0700
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org>,
       linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       vendor-sec@lst.de, security@linux.kernel.org,
       David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Subject: Re: [vendor-sec] [BUG/PATCH/RFC] Oops while completing async USB via usbdevio
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On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 01:59:56PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 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?

No one has taken the time and effort to do this.  No other reason that I
know of.  David?  I know you have looked into this a bit in the past.

thanks,

greg k-h
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