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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-07-16 00:29:07 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-07-16 00:29:07 +0200
commit82638844d9a8581bbf33201cc209a14876eca167 (patch)
tree961d7f9360194421a71aa644a9d0c176a960ce49 /fs/char_dev.c
parent9982fbface82893e77d211fbabfbd229da6bdde6 (diff)
parent63cf13b77ab785e87c867defa8545e6d4a989774 (diff)
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Merge branch 'linus' into cpus4096
Conflicts: arch/x86/xen/smp.c kernel/sched_rt.c net/iucv/iucv.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;