mtd_open() got lock/unlock kernel from the big BKL push down, but it never relied on the BKL serialization as get_mtd_device() takes care of serialization vs. device init/teardown. mtd_ioctl() is safe w/o the BKL as well. The data which is copied from the mtd data structure is either set up during device initialization or statistics which have never been protected by the BKL against concurrent modification. The mtd functions which are called from various ioctl commands are safe as well. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: David Woodhouse Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org --- drivers/mtd/mtdchar.c | 30 ++++++++---------------------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-) Index: linux-2.6-tip/drivers/mtd/mtdchar.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6-tip.orig/drivers/mtd/mtdchar.c +++ linux-2.6-tip/drivers/mtd/mtdchar.c @@ -12,7 +12,6 @@ #include #include #include -#include #include #include @@ -74,18 +73,14 @@ static int mtd_open(struct inode *inode, if ((file->f_mode & FMODE_WRITE) && (minor & 1)) return -EACCES; - lock_kernel(); mtd = get_mtd_device(NULL, devnum); - if (IS_ERR(mtd)) { - ret = PTR_ERR(mtd); - goto out; - } + if (IS_ERR(mtd)) + return PTR_ERR(mtd); if (mtd->type == MTD_ABSENT) { put_mtd_device(mtd); - ret = -ENODEV; - goto out; + return -ENODEV; } if (mtd->backing_dev_info) @@ -94,21 +89,17 @@ static int mtd_open(struct inode *inode, /* You can't open it RW if it's not a writeable device */ if ((file->f_mode & FMODE_WRITE) && !(mtd->flags & MTD_WRITEABLE)) { put_mtd_device(mtd); - ret = -EACCES; - goto out; + return -EACCES; } mfi = kzalloc(sizeof(*mfi), GFP_KERNEL); if (!mfi) { put_mtd_device(mtd); - ret = -ENOMEM; - goto out; + return -ENOMEM; } mfi->mtd = mtd; file->private_data = mfi; -out: - unlock_kernel(); return ret; } /* mtd_open */ @@ -450,13 +441,12 @@ static int mtd_do_readoob(struct mtd_inf return ret; } -static int mtd_ioctl(struct inode *inode, struct file *file, - u_int cmd, u_long arg) +static long mtd_ioctl(struct file *file, u_int cmd, u_long arg) { struct mtd_file_info *mfi = file->private_data; struct mtd_info *mtd = mfi->mtd; void __user *argp = (void __user *)arg; - int ret = 0; + long ret = 0; u_long size; struct mtd_info_user info; @@ -842,8 +832,6 @@ static long mtd_compat_ioctl(struct file void __user *argp = compat_ptr(arg); int ret = 0; - lock_kernel(); - switch (cmd) { case MEMWRITEOOB32: { @@ -877,8 +865,6 @@ static long mtd_compat_ioctl(struct file ret = mtd_ioctl(inode, file, cmd, (unsigned long)argp); } - unlock_kernel(); - return ret; } @@ -942,7 +928,7 @@ static const struct file_operations mtd_ .llseek = mtd_lseek, .read = mtd_read, .write = mtd_write, - .ioctl = mtd_ioctl, + .unlocked_ioctl = mtd_ioctl, #ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT .compat_ioctl = mtd_compat_ioctl, #endif