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authorJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>2008-05-15 16:08:15 -0600
committerJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>2008-06-20 14:05:49 -0600
commitb3369c68bf9d61062585f3ebc1286220191c0f84 (patch)
treee2b5d3caeb4146eda621c109e16644edc9f0d54a /drivers
parentd4514d1bed1c7157bcff4c81307a9e0374df257a (diff)
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st: cdev lock_kernel() pushdown
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/scsi/st.c11
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/st.c b/drivers/scsi/st.c
index e8db66ad0bde..e93544dd81bf 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/st.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/st.c
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ static const char *verstr = "20080224";
#include <linux/cdev.h>
#include <linux/delay.h>
#include <linux/mutex.h>
+#include <linux/smp_lock.h>
#include <asm/uaccess.h>
#include <asm/dma.h>
@@ -1113,7 +1114,7 @@ static int check_tape(struct scsi_tape *STp, struct file *filp)
}
- /* Open the device. Needs to be called with BKL only because of incrementing the SCSI host
+ /* Open the device. Needs to take the BKL only because of incrementing the SCSI host
module count. */
static int st_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
{
@@ -1123,6 +1124,7 @@ static int st_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
int dev = TAPE_NR(inode);
char *name;
+ lock_kernel();
/*
* We really want to do nonseekable_open(inode, filp); here, but some
* versions of tar incorrectly call lseek on tapes and bail out if that
@@ -1130,8 +1132,10 @@ static int st_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
*/
filp->f_mode &= ~(FMODE_PREAD | FMODE_PWRITE);
- if (!(STp = scsi_tape_get(dev)))
+ if (!(STp = scsi_tape_get(dev))) {
+ unlock_kernel();
return -ENXIO;
+ }
write_lock(&st_dev_arr_lock);
filp->private_data = STp;
@@ -1140,6 +1144,7 @@ static int st_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
if (STp->in_use) {
write_unlock(&st_dev_arr_lock);
scsi_tape_put(STp);
+ unlock_kernel();
DEB( printk(ST_DEB_MSG "%s: Device already in use.\n", name); )
return (-EBUSY);
}
@@ -1188,12 +1193,14 @@ static int st_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
retval = (-EIO);
goto err_out;
}
+ unlock_kernel();
return 0;
err_out:
normalize_buffer(STp->buffer);
STp->in_use = 0;
scsi_tape_put(STp);
+ unlock_kernel();
return retval;
}