Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Jan Blunck <> | Subject | [PATCH 09/20] BKL: Remove BKL from ext3_put_super() and ext3_remount() | Date | Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:24:42 +0100 |
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The BKL lock is protecting the remounting against a potential call to ext3_put_super(). This could not happen, since this is protected by the s_umount rw semaphore of struct super_block.
Therefore I think the BKL is protecting nothing here.
Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de> Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> --- fs/ext3/super.c | 8 -------- 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/ext3/super.c b/fs/ext3/super.c index 373fc54..d02fbc6 100644 --- a/fs/ext3/super.c +++ b/fs/ext3/super.c @@ -398,8 +398,6 @@ static void ext3_put_super (struct super_block * sb) struct ext3_super_block *es = sbi->s_es; int i, err; - lock_kernel(); - ext3_xattr_put_super(sb); err = journal_destroy(sbi->s_journal); sbi->s_journal = NULL; @@ -448,8 +446,6 @@ static void ext3_put_super (struct super_block * sb) sb->s_fs_info = NULL; kfree(sbi->s_blockgroup_lock); kfree(sbi); - - unlock_kernel(); } static struct kmem_cache *ext3_inode_cachep; @@ -2497,8 +2493,6 @@ static int ext3_remount (struct super_block * sb, int * flags, char * data) int i; #endif - lock_kernel(); - /* Store the original options */ lock_super(sb); old_sb_flags = sb->s_flags; @@ -2609,7 +2603,6 @@ static int ext3_remount (struct super_block * sb, int * flags, char * data) kfree(old_opts.s_qf_names[i]); #endif unlock_super(sb); - unlock_kernel(); return 0; restore_opts: sb->s_flags = old_sb_flags; @@ -2627,7 +2620,6 @@ restore_opts: } #endif unlock_super(sb); - unlock_kernel(); return err; } -- 1.6.4.2
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