On Thu, Nov 18 1999, gokhan sozmen wrote:
>
> Looking at drivers/scsi/sr.c/get_sectorsize()
> in RH6.1 (2.2.12-20), it looks like the
> function is calling both scsi_malloc()
> and scsi_allocate_device() without
> grabbing the io_request_lock. Wouldn't this
> be a potential SMP race hazard?
Yes and it is fixed in recent 2.3 - not sure whether I
back ported those changes to 2.2 (it's in my patch
set, but I don't think I ever got around to submitting
that part of it).
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* Jens Axboe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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