On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi Marcelo,
>
> Here it is again against pre2. Do you have something against this
> patch or do I just slip between the boards?
>
> There are several current problems with the file leases code in 2.4
> including at least one race condition. This is a back port of the
> 2.5 file lease code which solves all the reported problems. It also
> includes a fix for an SMP race condition from Matthew Wilcox.
>
> Thanks to Michael Kerrisk for pushing and testing.
> static inline int get_lease(struct inode *inode, unsigned int mode)
> {
> - if (inode->i_flock && (inode->i_flock->fl_flags & FL_LEASE))
> + if (inode->i_flock)
> return __get_lease(inode, mode);
> return 0;
> }
Why do you remove the FL_LEASE check here?
I see no point doing that.
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