Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 6 Jan 2006 18:12:08 -0500 | From | Dmitry Torokhov <> | Subject | Re: [patch 2/4] fix input layer f_ops abuse |
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On 1/6/06, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> wrote: > From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> > > The input layer has an assignment to a live ->fops, just after creating the > fops as a duplicate of another one. Just move this assignment a few lines up to avoid > the race and the assignment to a live fops >
I do not understand how it will fix the "race", there is still a split second between "entry" having default fops and modified one. I'd prefer you fix the comment to reflect that the only change is because fops is now constant.
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