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

[Andrew de Quincey <adq_dvb@lidskialf.net>]

On Monday 18 Oct 2004 22:23, Johannes Stezenbach wrote:
> 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.)

I wonder if this will still be a problem with the refactored drivers? 
Unfortunately I've never seen anything like the reported problem.