Re: Race condition in 2.4 tasklet handling (cli() broken?)

[TeJun Huh]

On Sat, Aug 23, 2003 at 05:37:36PM +0200, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote:
> 
> Feel free to ask anything about the issue, I will try to help however possible.

 A deadlock occured today on our test machine, and the offending part
was drivers/char/random.c:iplock.  The spinlock is used without _bh
suffix both by the connect and accept paths causing deadlock
occasionally.  This seemed to be already fixed in the latest 2.4 bk
tree.  I believe this will cure our problem. :-)

-- 
tejun
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