Re: Oops in 2.2.15pre7

From: kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru
Date: Mon Feb 21 2000 - 13:01:17 EST


Hello!

> the cli()/sti() in fasync_helper() doesn't really protect much in SMP. =
> Especially in 2.3.47 when the kill_fasync() can be launched by the =
> console_softint -> receive_buf path for instance in n_tty.c

We talked about 2.2. In 2.3 it must be rwlock like sk->callback_lock,
no questions.

Alexey

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