From 83cb16727085b18191f45eb0ede6bf1f97d67a7a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ingo Molnar Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:48:38 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] 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 Cc: Al Viro Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Thomas Gleixner LKML-Reference: <1255116426-7270-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- drivers/char/nvram.c | 3 --- 1 file changed, 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; }