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BKL: Remove BKL from ecryptfs

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The BKL is only used in fill_super, which is protected by the superblocks
s_umount rw_semaphorei, and in fasync, which does not do anything that
could require the BKL. Therefore it is safe to remove the BKL entirely.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Dustin Kirkland <kirkland@canonical.com>
Cc: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: ecryptfs-devel@lists.launchpad.net
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Arnd Bergmann
2010-09-16 15:35:54 +02:00
parent 77f2fe036c
commit 18dfe89d7c
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@ -31,7 +31,6 @@
#include <linux/security.h>
#include <linux/compat.h>
#include <linux/fs_stack.h>
#include <linux/smp_lock.h>
#include "ecryptfs_kernel.h"
/**
@ -284,11 +283,9 @@ static int ecryptfs_fasync(int fd, struct file *file, int flag)
int rc = 0;
struct file *lower_file = NULL;
lock_kernel();
lower_file = ecryptfs_file_to_lower(file);
if (lower_file->f_op && lower_file->f_op->fasync)
rc = lower_file->f_op->fasync(fd, lower_file, flag);
unlock_kernel();
return rc;
}