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Message-ID: <20070708191123.GA466@motherbox.xtechq.com.ar>
Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2007 16:11:23 -0300
From: Diego Woitasen <diego@...tasen.com.ar>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
lkml - Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Remove unneded lock_kernel() in drivers/block/loop.c
This patch remove the unneeded lock_kernel() in drivers/block/loop.c. I
read the code and this lock_kernel() doesn't protect anything. Loopback
code use lo_ctl_mutex for syncronization.
diff --git a/drivers/block/loop.c b/drivers/block/loop.c
index 0ed5470..1cc004e 100644
--- a/drivers/block/loop.c
+++ b/drivers/block/loop.c
@@ -1286,7 +1286,6 @@ static long lo_compat_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long a
struct loop_device *lo = inode->i_bdev->bd_disk->private_data;
int err;
- lock_kernel();
switch(cmd) {
case LOOP_SET_STATUS:
mutex_lock(&lo->lo_ctl_mutex);
@@ -1312,7 +1311,6 @@ static long lo_compat_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long a
err = -ENOIOCTLCMD;
break;
}
- unlock_kernel();
return err;
}
#endif
--
--------------
Diego Woitasen
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