Chris Rankin wrote:
> --- Alan Stern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> There may indeed be a race condition somewhere, but so far you
>> haven't proved there is or pinned down exactly where.
> 
> However, I have *definitely* demonstrated the existence of a
> memory-corrupting **BUG**. I am consistently amazed by how
> unconcerned everyone seems to be about that.

Really, we ARE concerned.  It's just that the problem isn't easy to
track down because it requires rather specific configuration to
reproduce && we aren't very good at expressing concerns to other human
beings.

Anyways, it's probably a race condition in sysfs - e.g. a race between
opening and removing a node making a sysfs_dirent reused too early or
somesuch.  I'm curious whether recent sysfs rework makes the problem go
away but as -mm containing those updates aren't released yet, there's no
easy tree to test.

I'll think about it a bit more and I'm pretty sure Alan will do too, so
don't get disappointed too much.  :-)

-- 
tejun

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