usb4bsd patch review
Poul-Henning Kamp
phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Sat Aug 23 17:15:43 UTC 2008
In message <20080823.100155.1310242209.imp at bsdimp.com>, "M. Warner Losh" writes
:
>While this may be a good idea, I'm hesitant about races that it may
>introduce. This is the classic point of attack: do something between
>steps of a formerly atomic operation that was made non-atomic. I
>can't think of anything off the top of my head, but I'm still
>concerned.
We have ways of closing the race if need be, but they're all slightly
kludgy, but I am not overly concerned about those races as long as
the default is to not give access.
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