Commit 18dfe89d authored by Arnd Bergmann's avatar Arnd Bergmann
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BKL: Remove BKL from ecryptfs 



The BKL is only used in fill_super, which is protected by the superblocks
s_umount rw_semaphorei, and in fasync, which does not do anything that
could require the BKL. Therefore it is safe to remove the BKL entirely.

Signed-off-by: default avatarArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Dustin Kirkland <kirkland@canonical.com>
Cc: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: ecryptfs-devel@lists.launchpad.net
parent 77f2fe03

fs/ecryptfs/file.c

+0 −3
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@@ -31,7 +31,6 @@ 
#include <linux/security.h>

#include <linux/compat.h>

#include <linux/fs_stack.h>

#include <linux/smp_lock.h>

#include "ecryptfs_kernel.h"



/**
@@ -284,11 +283,9 @@ static int ecryptfs_fasync(int fd, struct file *file, int flag) 
	int rc = 0;

	struct file *lower_file = NULL;



	lock_kernel();

	lower_file = ecryptfs_file_to_lower(file);

	if (lower_file->f_op && lower_file->f_op->fasync)

		rc = lower_file->f_op->fasync(fd, lower_file, flag);

	unlock_kernel();

	return rc;

}

fs/ecryptfs/main.c

+0 −4
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@@ -36,7 +36,6 @@ 
#include <linux/parser.h>

#include <linux/fs_stack.h>

#include <linux/slab.h>

#include <linux/smp_lock.h>     /* For lock_kernel() */

#include "ecryptfs_kernel.h"



/**
@@ -551,7 +550,6 @@ static int ecryptfs_get_sb(struct file_system_type *fs_type, int flags, 
	const char *err = "Getting sb failed";

	int rc;



	lock_kernel();

	sbi = kmem_cache_zalloc(ecryptfs_sb_info_cache, GFP_KERNEL);

	if (!sbi) {

		rc = -ENOMEM;
@@ -610,7 +608,6 @@ static int ecryptfs_get_sb(struct file_system_type *fs_type, int flags, 
		goto out;

	}

	simple_set_mnt(mnt, s);

	unlock_kernel();

	return 0;



out:
@@ -619,7 +616,6 @@ out: 
		kmem_cache_free(ecryptfs_sb_info_cache, sbi);

	}

	printk(KERN_ERR "%s; rc = [%d]\n", err, rc);

	unlock_kernel();

	return rc;

}

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