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SubjectRe: [patch] small tty irq race fix

On Mon, 3 Mar 2003, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
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> What about this one? It just happens that tty->read_lock is actually used
> deeper in the same call instance (in n_tty.c) so this looks to be the best
> lock to use.

Looks ok. I would suggest moving the "spin_lock_irqsave()" to outside the
'if'-statement, though, since that should make the code a lot more
readable, and if the lock is supposed to protect tty->flip.buf_num, then
let's do it right and protect the read as well, no?

Linus

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