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Remove the lock_kernel() call from chrdev_open()
authorJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Sun, 18 May 2008 21:40:00 +0000 (15:40 -0600)
committerJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Fri, 20 Jun 2008 20:05:53 +0000 (14:05 -0600)
All in-kernel char device open() functions now either have their own
lock_kernel() calls or clearly do not need one.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
fs/char_dev.c

index a54d69369b2f4d5384f9072e99ee0e015c780e87..3cb7cda3d780e95026142398f4c52cdf565d93b6 100644 (file)
@@ -394,11 +394,8 @@ static int chrdev_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
                cdev_put(p);
                return -ENXIO;
        }
-       if (filp->f_op->open) {
-               lock_kernel();
+       if (filp->f_op->open)
                ret = filp->f_op->open(inode,filp);
-               unlock_kernel();
-       }
        if (ret)
                cdev_put(p);
        return ret;