Re: suspicious lock code in sys_sunos.c and sys_sunos32.c

Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Mon, 24 May 1999 12:56:48 -0400 (EDT)

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On Sun, 23 May 1999, Todd Sabin wrote:

>
> I was just grepping the 2.3.3 kernel for lock_kernel() and stumbled upon this
> code:

[snip]
Bug. replace the second instances with unlock_kernel().

> Both of which look rather suspicious, so I thought I'd let ppl know. I
> don't really understand the locking code, but this certainly looks wrong.

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