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DateThu, 3 Apr 2003 09:16:20 +0200
FromJens Axboe <>
SubjectRe: PATCH:ide_do_reset() fix for 2.5.66
On Thu, Apr 03 2003, rain.wang wrote:
> Hi Alan,
>     I found just changing ide_do_reset() to wait till completion can
> handle the handler race. can this be enough?

This is buggy for a number of reasons. Firstly, how do you make sure
that someone else doesn't race with your hwif_data manipulation? This
looks very suspect. By far the worst problem is that you are assuming
that ide_do_reset() can sleep, when in fact it cannot (just follow the
various paths into ide_do_request()). You even grab the ide_lock _and_
disable interrupts yourself prior calling wait_for_completion(), this is
incredibly broken.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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