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authorAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>2010-06-01 17:04:40 -0400
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2010-08-10 17:35:35 -0400
commit6e12ea4658487ba9c746e95b31014cb89f63703b (patch)
tree03c2e4fed6b1077a02b371ab686c6fb20b9ea0ed
parent16f76a7654cf603ca13543e4f914ec8b6cd9ffb2 (diff)
USB-BKL: Remove lock_kernel in usbfs update_sb()
The code this is attempting to lock against does not use the BKL, so it's not needed. Most likely this code is still broken/racy (Al Viro also thinks so), but removing the BKL should not make it worse than before. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
-rw-r--r--drivers/usb/core/inode.c4
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/usb/core/inode.c b/drivers/usb/core/inode.c
index 1a27618b67d6..095fa5366690 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/core/inode.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/core/inode.c
@@ -265,13 +265,9 @@ static int remount(struct super_block *sb, int *flags, char *data)
265 return -EINVAL; 265 return -EINVAL;
266 } 266 }
267 267
268 lock_kernel();
269
270 if (usbfs_mount && usbfs_mount->mnt_sb) 268 if (usbfs_mount && usbfs_mount->mnt_sb)
271 update_sb(usbfs_mount->mnt_sb); 269 update_sb(usbfs_mount->mnt_sb);
272 270
273 unlock_kernel();
274
275 return 0; 271 return 0;
276} 272}
277 273