From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 17:04:19 +0000 (-0600)
Subject: mem: cdev lock_kernel() pushdown
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.27-rc1~1103^2~128
X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1f439647a4072ec64bb2e4b9290cd7be6aee8328;p=linux-2.6

mem: cdev lock_kernel() pushdown

It's really hard to tell if this is necessary - lots of weird
magic happens by way of map_devmem()

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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diff --git a/drivers/char/mem.c b/drivers/char/mem.c
index 934ffafeda..070e22e8ea 100644
--- a/drivers/char/mem.c
+++ b/drivers/char/mem.c
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
 #include <linux/bootmem.h>
 #include <linux/splice.h>
 #include <linux/pfn.h>
+#include <linux/smp_lock.h>
 
 #include <asm/uaccess.h>
 #include <asm/io.h>
@@ -889,6 +890,9 @@ static const struct file_operations kmsg_fops = {
 
 static int memory_open(struct inode * inode, struct file * filp)
 {
+	int ret = 0;
+
+	lock_kernel();
 	switch (iminor(inode)) {
 		case 1:
 			filp->f_op = &mem_fops;
@@ -932,11 +936,13 @@ static int memory_open(struct inode * inode, struct file * filp)
 			break;
 #endif
 		default:
+			unlock_kernel();
 			return -ENXIO;
 	}
 	if (filp->f_op && filp->f_op->open)
-		return filp->f_op->open(inode,filp);
-	return 0;
+		ret = filp->f_op->open(inode,filp);
+	unlock_kernel();
+	return ret;
 }
 
 static const struct file_operations memory_fops = {