On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Yes, the same `current' context must run the down/up pair of calls and as you
> > said it is legal to rely on it on all the places it's used.
>
> I assume thats not an issue to reiserfs ?
>
I don't think so. There are two places reiserfs calls down/up. In our
file->release() callback, and in the ioctl we added for lilo so it can
upack files with tails.
Neither calls copy_from/to_user or does an allocation other than
GFP_BUFFER. As far as I know that should be safe, but the change is
trivial if we need to make it.
-chris
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