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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-07-18 19:31:12 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-07-18 19:31:12 +0200
commit3e370b29d35fb01bfb92c2814d6f79bf6a2cb970 (patch)
tree3b8fb467d60bfe6a34686f4abdc3a60050ba40a4 /fs/char_dev.c
parent88d1dce3a74367291f65a757fbdcaf17f042f30c (diff)
parent5b664cb235e97afbf34db9c4d77f08ebd725335e (diff)
Merge branch 'linus' into x86/pci-ioapic-boot-irq-quirks
Conflicts: drivers/pci/quirks.c Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/char_dev.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/char_dev.c7
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/fs/char_dev.c b/fs/char_dev.c
index 68e510b8845..3cb7cda3d78 100644
--- a/fs/char_dev.c
+++ b/fs/char_dev.c
@@ -373,6 +373,8 @@ static int chrdev_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
return -ENXIO;
new = container_of(kobj, struct cdev, kobj);
spin_lock(&cdev_lock);
+ /* Check i_cdev again in case somebody beat us to it while
+ we dropped the lock. */
p = inode->i_cdev;
if (!p) {
inode->i_cdev = p = new;
@@ -392,11 +394,8 @@ static int chrdev_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
cdev_put(p);
return -ENXIO;
}
- if (filp->f_op->open) {
- lock_kernel();
+ if (filp->f_op->open)
ret = filp->f_op->open(inode,filp);
- unlock_kernel();
- }
if (ret)
cdev_put(p);
return ret;