Re: nbd locking problems

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> > In the meantime, could you please post your patch?  (Is it the
> > three-liner I'd expect?)
> 
> Indeed it is. I was holding off on posting it, because I was hoping
> Pavel Machek would chime in. Pavel's commit message in [1] suggested
> that there was more work to do before the BKL could be vanquished from
> this driver (by changing .ioctl to .unlocked_ioctl).

Well, I tried to figure out locking in nbd, but could not. It somehow
wants both transmit and receive protected... but at the same time it
needs receiving while it transmits. Not sure what to do there.

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