Hello, Pavel Andrianov, on Mon 05 Sep 2016 11:51:50 +0300, wrote: > There is a potential race in drivers/staging/speakup/speakup.ko. > All operations with global pointers buff_in and buff_out are performed > without any locks. Thus, a simultaneous write (via synth_buffer_clear or > synth_buffer_add) to the pointers may lead to inconsistent data. > > Should a local lock be used here? AIUI, all callers of these functions have speakup_info.spinlock held. Samuel _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel