Fix incorrect spinlock use in hysdn_log_close(). The function declared a
spinlock on the stack and used it to 'protect' a shared driver structure.
The patch simply removes the useless code.
Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <matthias.kaehlcke@gmail.com>
Cc: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
struct procdata *pd;
hysdn_card *card;
int retval = 0;
- unsigned long flags;
- spinlock_t hysdn_lock = SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED;
lock_kernel();
if ((filep->f_mode & (FMODE_READ | FMODE_WRITE)) == FMODE_WRITE) {
/* read access -> log/debug read, mark one further file as closed */
pd = NULL;
- spin_lock_irqsave(&hysdn_lock, flags);
inf = *((struct log_data **) filep->private_data); /* get first log entry */
if (inf)
pd = (struct procdata *) inf->proc_ctrl; /* still entries there */
inf->usage_cnt--; /* decrement usage count for buffers */
inf = inf->next;
}
- spin_unlock_irqrestore(&hysdn_lock, flags);
if (pd)
if (pd->if_used <= 0) /* delete buffers if last file closed */