>It's slightly winding code, but if you look at the callers of >efivar_init() you'll see that none of them set both 'atomic' and >'duplicates', so dup_variable_bug() will never be called while holding >a spinlock.
>Or am I missing something? I was assuming that there could be a possibility when both 'atomic' and 'duplicates' are set. If both can never be set, then this patch does not make any sense, you are correct. Thank you for review -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

