Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 1 May 2003 15:33:25 +0100 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: must-fix list for 2.6.0 |
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drivers/scsi/
- large parts of the locking are hosed or not existant o shost->my_devices isn't locked down at all o the host list ist locked but not refcounted, mess can happen when the spinlock is dropped o there are lots of members of struct Scsi_Host/scsi_device/scsi_cmnd with very unclear locking, many of them probably want to become atomic_t's or bitmaps (for the 1bit bitfields). o there's lots of volatile abuse in the scsi code that needs to be thought about. o there's some global variables incremented without any locks
fs/devfs/
- there's a fundamental lookup vs devfsd race that's only fixable by introducing a lookup vs devfs deadlock. I can't see how this is fixable without getting rid of the current devfsd design. Mandrake seems to have a workaround for this so this is at least not triggered so easily, but that's not what I'd considere a fix.. - 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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