We don't need the semaphore any more since we no longer
write to the ioctl32 hash table while the kernel is running.
This patch was already ACK'ed by Andi Kleen.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[email protected]>
---
This patch was sent by Arnd Bergmann on:
- 05 Nov 2005
fs/compat.c | 7 -------
include/linux/ioctl32.h | 4 ----
2 files changed, 11 deletions(-)
--- linux-2.6.14-rc.orig/fs/compat.c 2005-11-05 02:41:10.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.14-rc/fs/compat.c 2005-11-05 02:41:14.000000000 +0100
@@ -268,7 +268,6 @@
#define IOCTL_HASHSIZE 256
static struct ioctl_trans *ioctl32_hash_table[IOCTL_HASHSIZE];
-static DECLARE_RWSEM(ioctl32_sem);
extern struct ioctl_trans ioctl_start[];
extern int ioctl_table_size;
@@ -390,14 +389,10 @@
break;
}
- /* When register_ioctl32_conversion is finally gone remove
- this lock! -AK */
- down_read(&ioctl32_sem);
for (t = ioctl32_hash_table[ioctl32_hash(cmd)]; t; t = t->next) {
if (t->cmd == cmd)
goto found_handler;
}
- up_read(&ioctl32_sem);
if (S_ISSOCK(filp->f_dentry->d_inode->i_mode) &&
cmd >= SIOCDEVPRIVATE && cmd <= (SIOCDEVPRIVATE + 15)) {
@@ -417,11 +412,9 @@
lock_kernel();
error = t->handler(fd, cmd, arg, filp);
unlock_kernel();
- up_read(&ioctl32_sem);
goto out_fput;
}
- up_read(&ioctl32_sem);
do_ioctl:
error = vfs_ioctl(filp, fd, cmd, arg);
out_fput:
Index: linux-2.6.14-rc/include/linux/ioctl32.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.14-rc.orig/include/linux/ioctl32.h 2005-11-05 02:41:10.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.14-rc/include/linux/ioctl32.h 2005-11-05 02:41:14.000000000 +0100
@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@
#ifndef IOCTL32_H
#define IOCTL32_H 1
-#include <linux/compiler.h> /* for __deprecated */
-
struct file;
typedef int (*ioctl_trans_handler_t)(unsigned int, unsigned int,
-
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