BKL: Remove BKL from ext4 filesystem

The BKL is still used in ext4_put_super(), ext4_fill_super() and
ext4_remount(). All three calles are protected against concurrent calls by
the s_umount rw semaphore of struct super_block.

Therefore the BKL is protecting nothing in this case.

Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@infradead.org>
Acked-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 15 deletions

diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c
index 0f0021f4990c..24e7699f915d 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
@@ -26,7 +26,6 @@
 #include <linux/init.h>
 #include <linux/blkdev.h>
 #include <linux/parser.h>
-#include <linux/smp_lock.h>
 #include <linux/buffer_head.h>
 #include <linux/exportfs.h>
 #include <linux/vfs.h>
@@ -708,7 +707,6 @@ static void ext4_put_super(struct super_block *sb)
         destroy_workqueue(sbi->dio_unwritten_wq);
 
         lock_super(sb);
-        lock_kernel();
         if (sb->s_dirt)
                 ext4_commit_super(sb, 1);
 
@@ -775,7 +773,6 @@ static void ext4_put_super(struct super_block *sb)
          * Now that we are completely done shutting down the
          * superblock, we need to actually destroy the kobject.
          */
-        unlock_kernel();
         unlock_super(sb);
         kobject_put(&sbi->s_kobj);
         wait_for_completion(&sbi->s_kobj_unregister);
@@ -2568,8 +2565,6 @@ static int ext4_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent)
         int err;
         unsigned int journal_ioprio = DEFAULT_JOURNAL_IOPRIO;
 
-        lock_kernel();
-
         sbi = kzalloc(sizeof(*sbi), GFP_KERNEL);
         if (!sbi)
                 goto out_free_orig;
@@ -2590,8 +2585,6 @@ static int ext4_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent)
                 sbi->s_sectors_written_start =
                         part_stat_read(sb->s_bdev->bd_part, sectors[1]);
 
-        unlock_kernel();
-
         /* Cleanup superblock name */
         for (cp = sb->s_id; (cp = strchr(cp, '/'));)
                 *cp = '!';
@@ -3214,11 +3207,7 @@ out_fail:
         sb->s_fs_info = NULL;
         kfree(sbi->s_blockgroup_lock);
         kfree(sbi);
-        kfree(orig_data);
-        return ret;
-
 out_free_orig:
-        unlock_kernel();
         kfree(orig_data);
         return ret;
 }
@@ -3726,8 +3715,6 @@ static int ext4_remount(struct super_block *sb, int *flags, char *data)
 #endif
         char *orig_data = kstrdup(data, GFP_KERNEL);
 
-        lock_kernel();
-
         /* Store the original options */
         lock_super(sb);
         old_sb_flags = sb->s_flags;
@@ -3862,7 +3849,6 @@ static int ext4_remount(struct super_block *sb, int *flags, char *data)
                         kfree(old_opts.s_qf_names[i]);
 #endif
         unlock_super(sb);
-        unlock_kernel();
         if (enable_quota)
                 dquot_resume(sb, -1);
 
@@ -3888,7 +3874,6 @@ restore_opts:
         }
 #endif
         unlock_super(sb);
-        unlock_kernel();
         kfree(orig_data);
         return err;
 }