Re: Linux-2.4.0-test10

[Andi Kleen]

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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