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Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 14:33:09 -0800 (PST)
From: J <jhnlmn@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Possible race condition in usb-serial.c
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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Thank you for the response.

> This code depends on protection from BKL.

Really? I cannot find many lock_kernel calls in 
USB directory and those, which I can find, 
don't appear to protect usb_serial_disconnect
and serial_close from being called at the same time.

May be the protection is at a higher level? 
Personally I don't beleive it.
If you know how this thing is supposed to work,
please, tell me.

Thank you
John

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