Re: Poor floppy performance in kernel 2.4.10

From: Richard Gooch (rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca)
Date: Tue Nov 06 2001 - 02:01:43 EST


Alexander Viro writes:
> BTW, here's one more devfs rmmod race: check_disk_changed() in
> fs/devfs/base.c. Calling ->check_media_change() with no protection
> whatsoever. If rmmod happens at that point...

How is this different from a call to fs/block_dev.c:check_disk_change()
which also has no protection?

                                Regards,

                                        Richard....
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