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Change improper locking assertion in mge
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Authored by bsz_semihalf.com on Oct 15 2015, 12:41 PM.
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Assertion used here was not atomic (locks' state could change between consecutive 'if' conditions), what could lead to unwanted panic(). Moreover, it was wrong itself: it is *not* a problem if one of the locks is held during MGE_GLOBAL_LOCK.

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