Christos Zoulas wrote:
> | There already IS possible race condition between fd_getfile() and
> | later checks, even FILE_USE(). Note also that i.e. sys_read(),
> | sys_write(), sys_pread(), sys_pwrite() also check fp->f_flag (and
> | eventually bail out) before FILE_USE().
> 
> There is no reason to site other wrong examples. Just fix them :-)

Well, I don't feel like doing sweeping change like that at this
particular time. Those statements _are_ okay with current
biglock SMP, and the fd_getfile() and FILE_USE() kernel interface
would need to be revisited to implement more fine-grained locking
anyway.

Jaromir
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