Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 10 Oct 2001 06:34:27 -0400 (EDT) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] register_blkdev and unregister_blkdev |
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On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, BALBIR SINGH wrote:
> I was looking at the code for register_blkdev and unregister_blkdev. I > found that no > locking (spinlocks) are used to protect the blkdevs struture in these > functions. I suspect > we have not seen a problem till now since
... they are only called under BKL; ditto for lookups in the tables they (de-)populate.
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