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authorMatthias Kaehlcke <matthias.kaehlcke@gmail.com>2007-05-08 00:32:38 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-05-08 11:15:16 -0700
commit635244c59c27d3b22c4523d2a951cf553195a966 (patch)
tree21e49799d046275f51efdb2a0c03fd3f97074858 /drivers
parent13af68ee335d4d26ef96a133abc94b2ef051be00 (diff)
fix spinlock usage in hysdn_log_close()
Fix incorrect spinlock use in hysdn_log_close(). The function declared a spinlock on the stack and used it to 'protect' a shared driver structure. The patch simply removes the useless code. Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <matthias.kaehlcke@gmail.com> Cc: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/isdn/hysdn/hysdn_proclog.c4
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/isdn/hysdn/hysdn_proclog.c b/drivers/isdn/hysdn/hysdn_proclog.c
index 4c7dedac0e5..27b3991fb0e 100644
--- a/drivers/isdn/hysdn/hysdn_proclog.c
+++ b/drivers/isdn/hysdn/hysdn_proclog.c
@@ -297,8 +297,6 @@ hysdn_log_close(struct inode *ino, struct file *filep)
struct procdata *pd;
hysdn_card *card;
int retval = 0;
- unsigned long flags;
- spinlock_t hysdn_lock = SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED;
lock_kernel();
if ((filep->f_mode & (FMODE_READ | FMODE_WRITE)) == FMODE_WRITE) {
@@ -308,7 +306,6 @@ hysdn_log_close(struct inode *ino, struct file *filep)
/* read access -> log/debug read, mark one further file as closed */
pd = NULL;
- spin_lock_irqsave(&hysdn_lock, flags);
inf = *((struct log_data **) filep->private_data); /* get first log entry */
if (inf)
pd = (struct procdata *) inf->proc_ctrl; /* still entries there */
@@ -331,7 +328,6 @@ hysdn_log_close(struct inode *ino, struct file *filep)
inf->usage_cnt--; /* decrement usage count for buffers */
inf = inf->next;
}
- spin_unlock_irqrestore(&hysdn_lock, flags);
if (pd)
if (pd->if_used <= 0) /* delete buffers if last file closed */