Re: 2.6.13: loop ioctl crashes

[Ian Collier]

On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 08:32:10AM -0400, linux-os (Dick Johnson) wrote:
> I guess you are trying to do a copy_from_user() with a spin-lock
> being held or the interrupts otherwise disabled. You can hold
> a semaphore, to prevent somebody else from interfering with
> you, but you cannot hold a spin-lock during copy/to/from/user().

Well, I didn't write the code (it's right there in drivers/block/loop.c
in 2.6.13) and I can't see where there's a spin-lock.  In fact it does
use a semaphore.

imc
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