[linux-dvb] Re: DVB related bug in 2.6.8 and following

[Johannes Stezenbach <js@linuxtv.org>]

Michael Hunold wrote:
> 
> Andrew Morton constantly reminds me of the following problem:
> http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3344
> 
> I know this is old code, but we should at least be so kind and find the 
> source of the problem, shouldn't we? 8-)
> 
> I looked at the code, but didn't find anything suspicous. I'm currently 
> trying to reproduce it on my test system, but I'm not very confident 
> that it will happen for me, too.
> 
> The author of the bug describes how to reproduce the bug without running 
> VDR. Perhaps it's some sort of race condition with "evdev"?
> 
> If somebody has some time to spare, it would be cool to get some 
> feedback regarding this problem.

Maybe we should free "data" after unregistering the
frontend in uni0299_detach(). (There's a single alloc/free
and it has the right size for slab-32 so this is the only
thing I could imagine.)


Johannes