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authorJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>2008-05-18 15:32:43 -0600
committerJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>2008-06-20 14:05:53 -0600
commitf2b9857eee17797541b845782ade4d7a9d50f843 (patch)
tree914a00afee2ff953199f99f7cf869e3fd83b36bd /drivers/infiniband/core
parent0b2806768899dba5967bcd4a3b93eaed9a1dc4f3 (diff)
Add a bunch of cycle_kernel_lock() calls
All of the open() functions which don't need the BKL on their face may still depend on its acquisition to serialize opens against driver initialization. So make those functions acquire then release the BKL to be on the safe side. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/infiniband/core')
-rw-r--r--drivers/infiniband/core/ucm.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/ucm.c b/drivers/infiniband/core/ucm.c
index 3e6a8ff6d76..b25675faaaf 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/core/ucm.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/ucm.c
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@
#include <linux/cdev.h>
#include <linux/idr.h>
#include <linux/mutex.h>
+#include <linux/smp_lock.h>
#include <asm/uaccess.h>
@@ -1155,11 +1156,11 @@ static unsigned int ib_ucm_poll(struct file *filp,
return mask;
}
-/* No BKL needed here: no global resources used */
static int ib_ucm_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
{
struct ib_ucm_file *file;
+ cycle_kernel_lock();
file = kmalloc(sizeof(*file), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!file)
return -ENOMEM;