Re: Poor floppy performance in kernel 2.4.10

Richard Gooch (rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca)
Tue, 6 Nov 2001 00:01:43 -0700

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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