> Alan, do you really want to touch the whole mess now? I _know_
> that it's a tiny piece of problem. But I also know what it will take to
> fix. Look: we can't cover all places where we use module-provided data -
There is no alternative. Any user can crash 2.3.x until it is fixed. End of
game, end of discussion. Doing it for 2.5 is too late.
There are very few affected code paths. The drivers/net stuff seems already
covered, the block/char open path needs covering, scsi modules do, etc
Alan
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