Kai Makisara wrote:
>
> On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, Sebastian Andersson wrote:
>
> > I've managed to lock the scsi tape driver by doing this:
> > mt status & mt status & mt status &
>
> ...
>
> The reason for this is that several processes can get into the
> scsi_tape_open function in the driver simultaneously and this is not
> allowed. There is an in_use flag which is set before the function
> returns. However, the process may sleep before that when executing SCSI
> commands ... Setting the flag must be moved earlier.
>
> I will do patches for 2.2 and 2.3 tomorrow (the bug is also in the earlier
> kernels). Before that I will try to find a brow paper bag ;-(
Sounds like a one-liner, in which case it might be appropriate for
the 2.0.39 maintenance release as well.
Paul.
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