Locking question, is this cool?

From: George Anzinger (george@mvista.com)
Date: Tue Oct 31 2000 - 13:51:53 EST

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At line 1073 of ../drivers/char/i2lib.c (2.4.0-test9) we find:

WRITE_LOCK_IRQSAVE(...

this is followed by:

COPY_FROM_USER(...

It seems to me that this could result in a page fault with interrupts
off. Is this ok?

George
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