Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] remove BKL from drivers' release functions | Date | Wed, 28 Nov 2001 23:36:18 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> drivers' release functions. The release functions are already > serialized in the VFS code by an atomic_t which guarantees that each
The release function was only partially serialized - what stops a release and an open racing each other ? That in several cases was why the lock was there.
I'm not saying your patch isnt a good thing. General rule of thumb, any user of lock_kernel has a race 8)
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