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Subject: Re: [PATCH] ATM locking fix. [Re: [PATCH] spinlock not locked
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>- dev = NULL is to be inserted between (A) and (B) or the caller won't
>   notice the failure
Oops. Missed that one.

>- atm_proc_dev_register issues kmalloc(...,GFP_KERNEL) and atm_dev_lock
>   is hold
No. It uses GFP_ATOMIC.

Max

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