Re: modular net drivers, take 2

[Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 02:04:35PM +0200, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> - sys_ioctl() and sys_delete_module() both already claim
>   the big lock, so where's the race anyway?  I feel I'm missing
>   something..

Ugh, I missed that. Ok, with that there is no race. Even better :-)

I guess there are some time critical ioctls that should be run outside
kernel lock though. It is far too late to audit them all though.


-Andi

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