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authorFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>2009-10-09 21:27:06 +0200
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2009-10-14 17:36:50 +0200
commit9e8ab74ddaa591575f599248080a1f0d917a56ee (patch)
tree4e019037c2a5aa8a6efb626b6e12f5ff4407b7ff /drivers/char/nvram.c
parent6783b9cd7104470a3afab51c205c5aea53a2858f (diff)
nvram: Drop the bkl from non-generic nvram_llseek()
Drop the bkl from nvram_llseek() as it obviously protects nothing. The file offset is safe in essence. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <1255116426-7270-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/char/nvram.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/char/nvram.c4
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/nvram.c b/drivers/char/nvram.c
index 88cee4099be..2100a8f7bd8 100644
--- a/drivers/char/nvram.c
+++ b/drivers/char/nvram.c
@@ -38,7 +38,6 @@
#define NVRAM_VERSION "1.3"
#include <linux/module.h>
-#include <linux/smp_lock.h>
#include <linux/nvram.h>
#define PC 1
@@ -214,7 +213,6 @@ void nvram_set_checksum(void)
static loff_t nvram_llseek(struct file *file, loff_t offset, int origin)
{
- lock_kernel();
switch (origin) {
case 0:
/* nothing to do */
@@ -226,7 +224,7 @@ static loff_t nvram_llseek(struct file *file, loff_t offset, int origin)
offset += NVRAM_BYTES;
break;
}
- unlock_kernel();
+
return (offset >= 0) ? (file->f_pos = offset) : -EINVAL;
}