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xilinx icap: BKL pushdown
authorJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Fri, 16 May 2008 19:50:20 +0000 (13:50 -0600)
committerJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Fri, 20 Jun 2008 20:05:51 +0000 (14:05 -0600)
Add explicit lock_kernel() calls to hwicap_open() even though the existing
locking looks adequate.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
drivers/char/xilinx_hwicap/xilinx_hwicap.c

index 3edf1fc1296312e09670427b6500a442d50a7c5f..1e1b81e57cdcf7060739a42bd6862d2d5a2caab7 100644 (file)
@@ -85,6 +85,7 @@
 #include <linux/poll.h>
 #include <linux/proc_fs.h>
 #include <linux/mutex.h>
+#include <linux/smp_lock.h>
 #include <linux/sysctl.h>
 #include <linux/version.h>
 #include <linux/fs.h>
@@ -504,11 +505,12 @@ static int hwicap_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
        struct hwicap_drvdata *drvdata;
        int status;
 
+       lock_kernel();
        drvdata = container_of(inode->i_cdev, struct hwicap_drvdata, cdev);
 
        status = mutex_lock_interruptible(&drvdata->sem);
        if (status)
-               return status;
+               goto out;
 
        if (drvdata->is_open) {
                status = -EBUSY;
@@ -528,6 +530,8 @@ static int hwicap_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
 
  error:
        mutex_unlock(&drvdata->sem);
+ out:
+       unlock_kernel();
        return status;
 }