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authorFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>2009-10-09 21:20:30 +0200
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2009-10-14 17:36:49 +0200
commit6783b9cd7104470a3afab51c205c5aea53a2858f (patch)
tree461b15ff61a7c737e2fef8af8db928c4ae4e7798 /drivers/char/generic_nvram.c
parent205153aa40b7fb36dc7fe76c1798584ace55b288 (diff)
downloadlinux-6783b9cd7104470a3afab51c205c5aea53a2858f.tar.bz2
nvram: Drop the bkl from nvram_llseek()
There is nothing to protect inside nvram_llseek(), the file offset doesn't need to be protected and nvram_len is only initialized from an __init path. It's safe to remove the big kernel lock there. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <1255116030-6929-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/char/generic_nvram.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/char/generic_nvram.c9
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/generic_nvram.c b/drivers/char/generic_nvram.c
index ef31738c2cbe..fda4181b5e67 100644
--- a/drivers/char/generic_nvram.c
+++ b/drivers/char/generic_nvram.c
@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@
#include <linux/miscdevice.h>
#include <linux/fcntl.h>
#include <linux/init.h>
-#include <linux/smp_lock.h>
#include <asm/uaccess.h>
#include <asm/nvram.h>
#ifdef CONFIG_PPC_PMAC
@@ -32,7 +31,6 @@ static ssize_t nvram_len;
static loff_t nvram_llseek(struct file *file, loff_t offset, int origin)
{
- lock_kernel();
switch (origin) {
case 1:
offset += file->f_pos;
@@ -41,12 +39,11 @@ static loff_t nvram_llseek(struct file *file, loff_t offset, int origin)
offset += nvram_len;
break;
}
- if (offset < 0) {
- unlock_kernel();
+ if (offset < 0)
return -EINVAL;
- }
+
file->f_pos = offset;
- unlock_kernel();
+
return file->f_pos;
}