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SubjectRe: [PATCH RFC] [PATCH] drivers/scsi/ch.c: Remove BKL in ch_open
On Sun, 11 Oct 2009 16:54:08 +0100
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:

> > > I'm not so sure. In fact there are some quite umm interesting
> > > questions about this code, and some of them are shared with other
> > > modules too.
> > >
> > > Consider the following sequence
> > >
> > > CPU1 CPU2
> > > register_chrdev
> > > ok
> > > open device
> > > takes lock
> >
> >
> > but open does not take the BKL, so the BKL is not protecting you at
> > all against this..
>
> But module load/unload does

it does?

looking at the code.... so far failing to find where.



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