Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 19 Jul 2005 19:48:53 +0200 (MEST) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: files_lock deadlock? |
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> I noticed that files_lock is only protected with spin_lock() (file_list_lock(), > include/linux/fs.h). Is it possible that this should be changed to > spin_lock_irq()) or spin_lock_irqsave()? Or am I misssing something obvious?
I'm probably stabbing in the dark, but I've seen ipt_owner of netfilter to talk about spin_lock_bh() wrt. files->file_lock.
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