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authorJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>2008-05-18 15:32:43 -0600
committerJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>2008-06-20 14:05:53 -0600
commitf2b9857eee17797541b845782ade4d7a9d50f843 (patch)
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Add a bunch of cycle_kernel_lock() calls
All of the open() functions which don't need the BKL on their face may still depend on its acquisition to serialize opens against driver initialization. So make those functions acquire then release the BKL to be on the safe side. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/char/ppdev.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/char/ppdev.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/ppdev.c b/drivers/char/ppdev.c
index ce1987574888..f6e6acadd9a0 100644
--- a/drivers/char/ppdev.c
+++ b/drivers/char/ppdev.c
@@ -66,6 +66,7 @@
#include <linux/poll.h>
#include <linux/major.h>
#include <linux/ppdev.h>
+#include <linux/smp_lock.h>
#include <asm/uaccess.h>
#define PP_VERSION "ppdev: user-space parallel port driver"
@@ -633,12 +634,12 @@ static int pp_ioctl(struct inode *inode, struct file *file,
return 0;
}
-/* No BKL needed here: only local resources used */
static int pp_open (struct inode * inode, struct file * file)
{
unsigned int minor = iminor(inode);
struct pp_struct *pp;
+ cycle_kernel_lock();
if (minor >= PARPORT_MAX)
return -ENXIO;