"Michael S. Tsirkin" <[email protected]> writes: > Because of a sanity check in virtio_dev_remove, a buggy device can crash > kernel. And in case of rproc it's userspace so it's not a good idea. > We are unloading a driver so how bad can it be? > Be less aggressive in handling this error: if it's a driver bug, > warning once should be enough. > > Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <[email protected]> > > -- > > 3.6 material?
I have already applied, this, but it's not for stable, since it's a "theoretical bugfix". That check has been in there forever and noone AFAIK has actually struck it. Cheers, Rusty. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
