Greetings.
Please have a look at this bug report:
http://kerneloops.org/raw.php?rawid=47211
reverting commit 5b6155ee70e9c4d2ad7e6f514c8eee06e2711c3a fixes the
problem
commit 5b6155ee70e9c4d2ad7e6f514c8eee06e2711c3a
Author: Alan Cox <[email protected]>
Date: Fri Jul 4 09:29:16 2008 +0200
pktcdvd: push BKL down into driver
Push the lock_kernel down into the driver and switch to
unlocked_ioctl
[[email protected]: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Peter Osterlund <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
On Sun, 03 Aug 2008 14:18:04 +0200
Thomas Meyer <[email protected]> wrote:
> Greetings.
>
> Please have a look at this bug report:
>
> http://kerneloops.org/raw.php?rawid=47211
>
> reverting commit 5b6155ee70e9c4d2ad7e6f514c8eee06e2711c3a fixes the
> problem
ioctl_by_bdev is calling ioctl methods with filp = NULL which is not
valid. That in turn blocks switching to unlocked_ioctl and BKL removal so
ioctl_by_bdev urgently needs fixing.
Alan