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drivers: Remove BKL from misc_open 

misc_open() is already serialized with misc_mtx. Remove the BKL
locking which got there via the BKL pushdown.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
LKML-Reference: <20091010153349.237173041@linutronix.de>
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Thomas Gleixner 2009-10-10 15:35:43 +00:00
parent 80f506918f
commit 40b798efe3
1 changed files with 1 additions and 4 deletions
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@ -49,7 +49,6 @@
#include <linux/device.h>
#include <linux/tty.h>
#include <linux/kmod.h>
#include <linux/smp_lock.h>
/*
* Head entry for the doubly linked miscdevice list
@ -118,8 +117,7 @@ static int misc_open(struct inode * inode, struct file * file)
struct miscdevice *c;
int err = -ENODEV;
const struct file_operations *old_fops, *new_fops = NULL;
lock_kernel();
mutex_lock(&misc_mtx);
list_for_each_entry(c, &misc_list, list) {
@ -157,7 +155,6 @@ static int misc_open(struct inode * inode, struct file * file)
fops_put(old_fops);
fail:
mutex_unlock(&misc_mtx);
unlock_kernel();
return err;
}