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[PATCH] Remove compat ioctl semaphore

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Originally for 2.6.16, but the semaphore causes problems for some
people so get rid of it now.

It's not needed anymore because the ioctl hash table is never changed
at run time now.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Andi Kleen 2005-11-20 18:49:08 +01:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent e6c667592e
commit 9e18fcdd34
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fs/compat.c
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@ -268,7 +268,6 @@ out:
#define IOCTL_HASHSIZE 256
static struct ioctl_trans *ioctl32_hash_table[IOCTL_HASHSIZE];
static DECLARE_RWSEM(ioctl32_sem);
extern struct ioctl_trans ioctl_start[];
extern int ioctl_table_size;
@ -390,14 +389,10 @@ asmlinkage long compat_sys_ioctl(unsigned int fd, unsigned int cmd,
break;
}
/* When register_ioctl32_conversion is finally gone remove
this lock! -AK */
down_read(&ioctl32_sem);
for (t = ioctl32_hash_table[ioctl32_hash(cmd)]; t; t = t->next) {
if (t->cmd == cmd)
goto found_handler;
}
up_read(&ioctl32_sem);
if (S_ISSOCK(filp->f_dentry->d_inode->i_mode) &&
cmd >= SIOCDEVPRIVATE && cmd <= (SIOCDEVPRIVATE + 15)) {
@ -417,11 +412,9 @@ asmlinkage long compat_sys_ioctl(unsigned int fd, unsigned int cmd,
lock_kernel();
error = t->handler(fd, cmd, arg, filp);
unlock_kernel();
up_read(&ioctl32_sem);
goto out_fput;
}
up_read(&ioctl32_sem);
do_ioctl:
error = vfs_ioctl(filp, fd, cmd, arg);
out_fput: