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* [PATCH][UHCI-DEBUG] Don't kmalloc with BKL held
@ 2009-10-02  9:12 Sven-Thorsten Dietrich
  2009-10-02  9:20 ` Frederik Deweerdt
  2009-10-02 12:01 ` Oliver Neukum
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Sven-Thorsten Dietrich @ 2009-10-02  9:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: LKML; +Cc: linux-rt-users

Subject: Don't kmalloc with BKL held.
From: Sven-Thorsten Dietrich <sdietrich@suse.de>

I'm eyeballing this file for complete removal of lock_kernel but 
at first glance, we definitely don't need BKL to kmalloc(). 

Signed-off-by: Sven-Thorsten Dietrich <sdietrich@suse.de>


diff --git a/drivers/usb/host/uhci-debug.c b/drivers/usb/host/uhci-debug.c
index e52b954..325d508 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/host/uhci-debug.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/host/uhci-debug.c
@@ -497,7 +497,6 @@ static int uhci_debug_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
 	int ret = -ENOMEM;
 	unsigned long flags;
 
-	lock_kernel();
 	up = kmalloc(sizeof(*up), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!up)
 		goto out;
@@ -509,6 +508,8 @@ static int uhci_debug_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
 	}
 
 	up->size = 0;
+
+	lock_kernel();
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&uhci->lock, flags);
 	if (uhci->is_initialized)
 		up->size = uhci_sprint_schedule(uhci, up->data, MAX_OUTPUT);



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2009-10-02  9:20 ` Frederik Deweerdt
2009-10-03 12:35   ` Sven-Thorsten Dietrich
2009-10-06  7:51     ` Frederik Deweerdt
2009-10-06 10:09     ` Thomas Gleixner
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