From: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
To: akpm@osdl.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [uml-devel] [PATCH 3/9] UML - Locking commentary in the random driver
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2007 13:42:13 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200701051842.l05IgDPV004617@ccure.user-mode-linux.org> (raw)
Comment the lack of locking.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
--
arch/um/drivers/random.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
Index: linux-2.6.18-mm/arch/um/drivers/random.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.18-mm.orig/arch/um/drivers/random.c 2006-12-29 12:20:14.000000000 -0500
+++ linux-2.6.18-mm/arch/um/drivers/random.c 2007-01-01 13:12:54.000000000 -0500
@@ -78,6 +78,7 @@ static const struct file_operations rng_
.read = rng_dev_read,
};
+/* rng_init shouldn't be called more than once at boot time */
static struct miscdevice rng_miscdev = {
RNG_MISCDEV_MINOR,
RNG_MODULE_NAME,
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