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| author | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2008-07-18 02:39:39 -0700 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2008-07-18 02:39:39 -0700 |
| commit | 49997d75152b3d23c53b0fa730599f2f74c92c65 (patch) | |
| tree | 46e93126170d02cfec9505172e545732c1b69656 /fs/char_dev.c | |
| parent | a0c80b80e0fb48129e4e9d6a9ede914f9ff1850d (diff) | |
| parent | 5b664cb235e97afbf34db9c4d77f08ebd725335e (diff) | |
Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
Conflicts:
Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt
drivers/atm/Makefile
drivers/net/fs_enet/fs_enet-main.c
drivers/pci/pci-acpi.c
net/8021q/vlan.c
net/iucv/iucv.c
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/char_dev.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/char_dev.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/fs/char_dev.c b/fs/char_dev.c index 68e510b8845..3cb7cda3d78 100644 --- a/fs/char_dev.c +++ b/fs/char_dev.c @@ -373,6 +373,8 @@ static int chrdev_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp) return -ENXIO; new = container_of(kobj, struct cdev, kobj); spin_lock(&cdev_lock); + /* Check i_cdev again in case somebody beat us to it while + we dropped the lock. */ p = inode->i_cdev; if (!p) { inode->i_cdev = p = new; @@ -392,11 +394,8 @@ static int chrdev_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp) cdev_put(p); return -ENXIO; } - if (filp->f_op->open) { - lock_kernel(); + if (filp->f_op->open) ret = filp->f_op->open(inode,filp); - unlock_kernel(); - } if (ret) cdev_put(p); return ret; |