Re: What protects cleanup_module() from open()?

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 30 Nov 1999 19:28:16 +0000 (GMT)

> How is it OK on 2.2? That was the source I was looking at, I couldn't see
> anything that held the kernel lock during the open.

sys_open()

> It was most likely fine in 2.0, where everything was under one big kernel
> lock. I just didn't see where 2.2 was protected.

In 2.2 sys_open and the module functions happen to do the needed locking

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