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Message-Id: <6f8bed9c59f7d2e5aab7.1200623625@cinder.waste.org>
Date:	Thu, 17 Jan 2008 20:33:45 -0600
From:	Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 03 of 12] random: use unlocked_ioctl

No locking actually needed.

Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>

diff -r f814137b0bfc -r 6f8bed9c59f7 drivers/char/random.c
--- a/drivers/char/random.c	Thu Jan 17 20:25:23 2008 -0600
+++ b/drivers/char/random.c	Thu Jan 17 20:25:23 2008 -0600
@@ -1063,8 +1063,7 @@
 	return (ssize_t)count;
 }
 
-static int random_ioctl(struct inode *inode, struct file *file,
-			unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
+static long random_ioctl(struct file *f, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
 {
 	int size, ent_count;
 	int __user *p = (int __user *)arg;
@@ -1072,8 +1071,8 @@
 
 	switch (cmd) {
 	case RNDGETENTCNT:
-		ent_count = input_pool.entropy_count;
-		if (put_user(ent_count, p))
+		/* inherently racy, no point locking */
+		if (put_user(input_pool.entropy_count, p))
 			return -EFAULT;
 		return 0;
 	case RNDADDTOENTCNT:
@@ -1116,13 +1115,13 @@
 	.read  = random_read,
 	.write = random_write,
 	.poll  = random_poll,
-	.ioctl = random_ioctl,
+	.unlocked_ioctl = random_ioctl,
 };
 
 const struct file_operations urandom_fops = {
 	.read  = urandom_read,
 	.write = random_write,
-	.ioctl = random_ioctl,
+	.unlocked_ioctl = random_ioctl,
 };
 
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