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From: Richard Gooch <rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca>
To: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
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Subject: Re: Poor floppy performance in kernel 2.4.10 
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Alexander Viro writes:
> 	BTW, here's one more devfs rmmod race: check_disk_changed() in
> fs/devfs/base.c.  Calling ->check_media_change() with no protection
> whatsoever.  If rmmod happens at that point...

How is this different from a call to fs/block_dev.c:check_disk_change()
which also has no protection?

				Regards,

					Richard....
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