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misc: cdev lock_kernel() pushdown 

misc_open() looks fine, but who knows what all of the misc drivers are
doing in their open() functions?

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
hifive-unleashed-5.1
Jonathan Corbet 2008-05-15 11:07:52 -06:00
parent 1f439647a4
commit 309c4551c0
1 changed files with 3 additions and 0 deletions
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@ -49,6 +49,7 @@
#include <linux/device.h>
#include <linux/tty.h>
#include <linux/kmod.h>
#include <linux/smp_lock.h>
/*
* Head entry for the doubly linked miscdevice list
@ -118,6 +119,7 @@ static int misc_open(struct inode * inode, struct file * file)
int err = -ENODEV;
const struct file_operations *old_fops, *new_fops = NULL;
lock_kernel();
mutex_lock(&misc_mtx);
list_for_each_entry(c, &misc_list, list) {
@ -155,6 +157,7 @@ static int misc_open(struct inode * inode, struct file * file)
fops_put(old_fops);
fail:
mutex_unlock(&misc_mtx);
unlock_kernel();
return err;
}