ipmi: fasync BKL pushdown

This driver really needs it to avoid races against open()

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

diff --git a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_devintf.c b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_devintf.c
index c816656d6bfbf444f9b14bc81614b211e3c51f76..c11a40483459f3bd581dd5429f65606b1d882f67 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_devintf.c
+++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_devintf.c
@@ -101,7 +101,9 @@ static int ipmi_fasync(int fd, struct file *file, int on)
        struct ipmi_file_private *priv = file->private_data;
        int                      result;
 
+       lock_kernel(); /* could race against open() otherwise */
        result = fasync_helper(fd, file, on, &priv->fasync_queue);
+       unlock_kernel();
 
        return (result);
 }