> drivers' release functions. The release functions are already
> serialized in the VFS code by an atomic_t which guarantees that each
The release function was only partially serialized - what stops a release
and an open racing each other ? That in several cases was why the lock
was there.
I'm not saying your patch isnt a good thing. General rule of thumb, any user
of lock_kernel has a race 8)
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