commit c0bed680f0ca603864375ed5f9fed4296a53aa62
author Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Fri May 16 13:54:46 2008 -0600
committer Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Fri Jun 20 14:05:51 2008 -0600
tree d6421cd2f369309f0f9693083f3d3540e160e196
parent b8c71d7ae2a7f723d171d9175212b6d0a727655d

raw: BKL pushdown

Put explicit lock_kernel() calls into raw_open(), even though the existing
locking looks adequate.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

drivers/char/raw.c

diff --git a/drivers/char/raw.c b/drivers/char/raw.c
index bbfa0e2..505fcbe 100644
--- a/drivers/char/raw.c
+++ b/drivers/char/raw.c
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 #include <linux/cdev.h>
 #include <linux/device.h>
 #include <linux/mutex.h>
+#include <linux/smp_lock.h>
 
 #include <asm/uaccess.h>
 
@@ -53,6 +54,7 @@
 		return 0;
 	}
 
+	lock_kernel();
 	mutex_lock(&raw_mutex);
 
 	/*
@@ -79,6 +81,7 @@
 			bdev->bd_inode->i_mapping;
 	filp->private_data = bdev;
 	mutex_unlock(&raw_mutex);
+	unlock_kernel();
 	return 0;
 
 out2: