Re: files_lock deadlock?

[Jan Engelhardt]

> I noticed that files_lock is only protected with spin_lock() (file_list_lock(),
> include/linux/fs.h). Is it possible that this should be changed to
> spin_lock_irq()) or spin_lock_irqsave()? Or am I misssing something obvious?

I'm probably stabbing in the dark, but I've seen ipt_owner of netfilter to 
talk about spin_lock_bh() wrt. files->file_lock.


Jan Engelhardt
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