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Subject[PATCH v2] generic_nvram: Turn nvram_ioctl into an unlocked ioctl
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nvram_ioctl is a bkl locked ioctl, but it can be an unlocked ioctl.

- part is provided by the user
- offset is provided by pmac_get_partition() which is safe as it only
touches nvram_partitions, an array inistialized on __init time and
read-only the rest of the time.
- nvram_sync() only relies on core99_nvram_sync() which checks
is_core_99, nvram_data, nvram_image. Those are variables initialized
on __init time only and their direct values are not touched further.
The rest modifies the nvram image header, protected by nv_lock
already.

So it's safe to call nvram_ioctl without the big kernel lock held.

v2: Fix nvram_ioctl to fit unlocked_ioctl signature.

Reported-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
Cc: Sven-Thorsten Dietrich <sven@thebigcorporation.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@texware.it>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
---
drivers/char/generic_nvram.c | 13 ++++++-------
1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/char/generic_nvram.c b/drivers/char/generic_nvram.c
index c49200e..866d04d 100644
--- a/drivers/char/generic_nvram.c
+++ b/drivers/char/generic_nvram.c
@@ -85,8 +85,7 @@ static ssize_t write_nvram(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
return p - buf;
}

-static int nvram_ioctl(struct inode *inode, struct file *file,
- unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
+static int nvram_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
{
switch(cmd) {
#ifdef CONFIG_PPC_PMAC
@@ -118,11 +117,11 @@ static int nvram_ioctl(struct inode *inode, struct file *file,
}

const struct file_operations nvram_fops = {
- .owner = THIS_MODULE,
- .llseek = nvram_llseek,
- .read = read_nvram,
- .write = write_nvram,
- .ioctl = nvram_ioctl,
+ .owner = THIS_MODULE,
+ .llseek = nvram_llseek,
+ .read = read_nvram,
+ .write = write_nvram,
+ .unlocked_ioctl = nvram_ioctl,
};

static struct miscdevice nvram_dev = {
--
1.6.2.3


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