Re: [PATCH] autofs4 - remove ioctl mutex

Linus Torvalds
2010-12-06T03:56:12Z

On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 7:51 PM, Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net> wrote:
> With the recent changes to remove the BKL a mutex was added to the
> ioctl entry point for calls to the old ioctl interface. This mutex
> needs to be removed because of the need for the expire ioctl to call
> back to the daemon to perform a umount and receive a completion
> status (via another ioctl).
>
> This should be fine as the new ioctl interface uses much of the same
> code and it has been used without a mutex for around a year without
> issue, as was the original intention.

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Linus