race condition in md (Re: First snapshot of a proposed set of fixes to make 2.0.34)

Stephen R. van den Berg (srb@cuci.nl)
Mon, 19 Jan 1998 12:46:33 +0100




I am still awaiting the patches to the md driver which were supposed to
get rid of the locking anomaly (or did I miss them?).
If they don't happen, I propose adding the minimal patch to the two
disk-wait-queue loops which gets rid of the race conditions I am experiencing
here.

-- 
Sincerely,                                                          srb@cuci.nl
           Stephen R. van den Berg (AKA BuGless).

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