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SCSI CD-ROM driver question

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (gokhan sozmen)
Thu Nov 18 14:12:12 1999

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Date:   Thu, 18 Nov 1999 11:10:07 -0800
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Looking at drivers/scsi/sr.c/get_sectorsize()
in RH6.1 (2.2.12-20), it looks like the 
function is calling both scsi_malloc() 
and scsi_allocate_device() without 
grabbing the io_request_lock. Wouldn't this
be a potential SMP race hazard?

rgds
Gokhan Sozmen


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