[PATCH] random driver preempt robustness
A certain codepath in the random driver relied on vt_ioctl() being under the BKL and implicitly disabling preemption. The code wasn't buggy upstream but it's slighly unrobust so I think we want the fix upstream too, independently of the remove-bkl patch. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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