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On Tue, 6 Nov 2001, Richard Gooch wrote: > Alexander Viro writes: > > BTW, here's one more devfs rmmod race: check_disk_changed() in > > fs/devfs/base.c. Calling ->check_media_change() with no protection > > whatsoever. If rmmod happens at that point... > > How is this different from a call to fs/block_dev.c:check_disk_change() > which also has no protection? It's called either from driver itself (and then whatever protects caller protects it as well) or after we'd pinned the thing down by blkdev_get(). - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | |||||||||
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