fix spinlock usage in hysdn_log_close()

Fix incorrect spinlock use in hysdn_log_close().  The function declared a
spinlock on the stack and used it to 'protect' a shared driver structure.

The patch simply removes the useless code.

Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <matthias.kaehlcke@gmail.com>
Cc: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/isdn/hysdn/hysdn_proclog.c b/drivers/isdn/hysdn/hysdn_proclog.c
index 4c7dedac0e51..27b3991fb0ec 100644
--- a/drivers/isdn/hysdn/hysdn_proclog.c
+++ b/drivers/isdn/hysdn/hysdn_proclog.c
@@ -297,8 +297,6 @@ hysdn_log_close(struct inode *ino, struct file *filep)
         struct procdata *pd;
         hysdn_card *card;
         int retval = 0;
-        unsigned long flags;
-        spinlock_t hysdn_lock = SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED;
 
         lock_kernel();
         if ((filep->f_mode & (FMODE_READ | FMODE_WRITE)) == FMODE_WRITE) {
@@ -308,7 +306,6 @@ hysdn_log_close(struct inode *ino, struct file *filep)
                 /* read access -> log/debug read, mark one further file as closed */
 
                 pd = NULL;
-                spin_lock_irqsave(&hysdn_lock, flags);
                 inf = *((struct log_data **) filep->private_data);      /* get first log entry */
                 if (inf)
                         pd = (struct procdata *) inf->proc_ctrl;        /* still entries there */
@@ -331,7 +328,6 @@ hysdn_log_close(struct inode *ino, struct file *filep)
                         inf->usage_cnt--;       /* decrement usage count for buffers */
                         inf = inf->next;
                 }
-                spin_unlock_irqrestore(&hysdn_lock, flags);
 
                 if (pd)
                         if (pd->if_used <= 0)   /* delete buffers if last file closed */