From: Diego Woitasen <diego@woitasen.com.ar>
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:26:17 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: Remove unneeded lock_kernel() in driver/block/loop.c
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.24-rc1~759
X-Git-Url: https://asedeno.scripts.mit.edu/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=759d7c6c47cf1439171d057a226453e96856c5de;p=linux.git

Remove unneeded lock_kernel() in driver/block/loop.c

Signed-off-by: Diego Woitasen <diego@woitasen.com.ar>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---

diff --git a/drivers/block/loop.c b/drivers/block/loop.c
index e5a051577a5e..589cbbd9cd4f 100644
--- a/drivers/block/loop.c
+++ b/drivers/block/loop.c
@@ -1285,7 +1285,6 @@ static long lo_compat_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long a
 	struct loop_device *lo = inode->i_bdev->bd_disk->private_data;
 	int err;
 
-	lock_kernel();
 	switch(cmd) {
 	case LOOP_SET_STATUS:
 		mutex_lock(&lo->lo_ctl_mutex);
@@ -1311,7 +1310,6 @@ static long lo_compat_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long a
 		err = -ENOIOCTLCMD;
 		break;
 	}
-	unlock_kernel();
 	return err;
 }
 #endif