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SubjectRe: [Announce] BKL shifting into drivers and filesystems - beware
Alexander Viro wrote:
>
> OK, folks - current bunch of changes looks rather interesting from
> the scalability point of view, but it means changes in 3rd-party code.
> Doing it during the 2.4 is obviously not an option and postponing to
> 2.5 looks like an overkill since changes are massive but very simple.
>
[snipped]

Hi,

The changes you made to some of the sound drivers seem to imply
it's possible to enter release()/mmap() before open() returns, is
this right?

If so what prevents release() from grabbing the BKL first?
Do the drivers now need to check the validity of file->private_data
before using it?

Rui Sousa

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