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Diffstat (limited to 'fs/char_dev.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/char_dev.c | 7 |
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; |