Re: [CHECKER] 56 potential lock/unlock bugs in 2.5.8

Roman Zippel (zippel@linux-m68k.org)
Fri, 12 Jul 2002 20:37:11 +0200 (CEST)


Hi,

On Fri, 12 Jul 2002, Thunder from the hill wrote:

> You mean
>
> static inline int affs_rmdir(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry)
> {
> int res;
> lock_kernel();
> res = affs_remove_header(dentry);
> unlock_kernel();
> return res;
> }

lock_kernel isn't required here. Yesterday I went through affs and removed
the BKL completely.

bye, Roman

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