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| author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-10-14 17:48:38 +0200 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-10-14 17:54:03 +0200 |
| commit | 83cb16727085b18191f45eb0ede6bf1f97d67a7a (patch) | |
| tree | 5103ae4ee83c22e76f57f1a46700f074d7d51309 /drivers/char | |
| parent | 55e858c8483af427144f33b42b818b30612b82b0 (diff) | |
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nvram: Drop the BKL from nvram_open()
It's safe to remove the BKL from nvram_open(): there's no open()
versus read() races: nvram_init() is very simple and race-free,
it registers the device then puts it into /proc - there's no
state init to race with.
Cc: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
LKML-Reference: <1255116426-7270-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/char')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/char/nvram.c | 3 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/nvram.c b/drivers/char/nvram.c index 2100a8f7bd86..7cf4518c030f 100644 --- a/drivers/char/nvram.c +++ b/drivers/char/nvram.c @@ -329,14 +329,12 @@ static int nvram_ioctl(struct inode *inode, struct file *file, static int nvram_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file) { - lock_kernel(); spin_lock(&nvram_state_lock); if ((nvram_open_cnt && (file->f_flags & O_EXCL)) || (nvram_open_mode & NVRAM_EXCL) || ((file->f_mode & FMODE_WRITE) && (nvram_open_mode & NVRAM_WRITE))) { spin_unlock(&nvram_state_lock); - unlock_kernel(); return -EBUSY; } @@ -347,7 +345,6 @@ static int nvram_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file) nvram_open_cnt++; spin_unlock(&nvram_state_lock); - unlock_kernel(); return 0; } |