Re: 2.6.13: loop ioctl crashes

From: Ian Collier (Ian.Collier_at_comlab.ox.ac.uk)
Date: 09/09/05

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    On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 08:32:10AM -0400, linux-os (*** Johnson) wrote:
    > I guess you are trying to do a copy_from_user() with a spin-lock
    > being held or the interrupts otherwise disabled. You can hold
    > a semaphore, to prevent somebody else from interfering with
    > you, but you cannot hold a spin-lock during copy/to/from/user().

    Well, I didn't write the code (it's right there in drivers/block/loop.c
    in 2.6.13) and I can't see where there's a spin-lock. In fact it does
    use a semaphore.

    imc
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