[PATCH] block: add unlocked_ioctl support for block devices
This patch allows block device drivers to convert their ioctl functions to
unlocked_ioctl() like character devices and other subsystems. All
functions that were called with the BKL held before are still used that
way, but I would not be surprised if it could be removed from the ioctl
functions in drivers/block/ioctl.c themselves.
As a side note, I found that compat_blkdev_ioctl() acquires the BKL as
well, which looks like a bug. I have checked that every user of
disk->fops->compat_ioctl() in the current git tree gets the BKL itself, so
it could easily be removed from compat_blkdev_ioctl().
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/fs/block_dev.c b/fs/block_dev.c
index c0cbd1b..e0df94c3 100644
--- a/fs/block_dev.c
+++ b/fs/block_dev.c
@@ -777,8 +777,7 @@
return generic_file_aio_write_nolock(iocb, &local_iov, 1, &iocb->ki_pos);
}
-static int block_ioctl(struct inode *inode, struct file *file, unsigned cmd,
- unsigned long arg)
+static long block_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned cmd, unsigned long arg)
{
return blkdev_ioctl(file->f_mapping->host, file, cmd, arg);
}
@@ -803,7 +802,7 @@
.aio_write = blkdev_file_aio_write,
.mmap = generic_file_mmap,
.fsync = block_fsync,
- .ioctl = block_ioctl,
+ .unlocked_ioctl = block_ioctl,
#ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT
.compat_ioctl = compat_blkdev_ioctl,
#endif