linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] sonypi: Kill off the BKL in the ioctl

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Message-ID: <520f0cf11001040912y67aab8e0x619baeed4883184f@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Mon, 4 Jan 2010 18:12:12 +0100
From:	John Kacur <jkacur@...il.com>
To:	Alan Cox <alan@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sonypi: Kill off the BKL in the ioctl

On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 5:21 PM, Alan Cox <alan@...ux.intel.com> wrote:
> And another thats been ignored for several months
>
> --
>
> All the internal logic is protected properly by the existing mutex locking
>
> Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@...ux.intel.com>
> ---
>
>  drivers/char/sonypi.c |    6 +++---
>  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
>
> diff --git a/drivers/char/sonypi.c b/drivers/char/sonypi.c
> index 0798754..6a574bf 100644
> --- a/drivers/char/sonypi.c
> +++ b/drivers/char/sonypi.c
> @@ -955,8 +955,8 @@ static unsigned int sonypi_misc_poll(struct file *file, poll_table *wait)
>        return 0;
>  }
>
> -static int sonypi_misc_ioctl(struct inode *ip, struct file *fp,
> -                            unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
> +static long sonypi_misc_ioctl(struct file *fp,
> +                                       unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
>  {
>        int ret = 0;
>        void __user *argp = (void __user *)arg;
> @@ -1074,7 +1074,7 @@ static const struct file_operations sonypi_misc_fops = {
>        .open           = sonypi_misc_open,
>        .release        = sonypi_misc_release,
>        .fasync         = sonypi_misc_fasync,
> -       .ioctl          = sonypi_misc_ioctl,
> +       .unlocked_ioctl = sonypi_misc_ioctl,
>  };
>
>  static struct miscdevice sonypi_misc_device = {
>
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I submitted this in October that would also remove the bkl from the
sonypi_misc_open function too.
http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0910.2/01405.html

Thanks
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