locks_remove_posix() can use posix_lock_file() instead of doing the lock removal by hand. posix_lock_file() now does exacly the same. The comment about pids no longer applies, posix_lock_file() takes only the owner into account. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@xxxxxxxxxx> Index: linux/fs/locks.c =================================================================== --- linux.orig/fs/locks.c 2006-04-09 11:10:01.000000000 +0200 +++ linux/fs/locks.c 2006-04-09 11:17:58.000000000 +0200 @@ -1891,15 +1891,14 @@ out: */ void locks_remove_posix(struct file *filp, fl_owner_t owner) { - struct file_lock lock, **before; + struct file_lock lock; /* * If there are no locks held on this file, we don't need to call * posix_lock_file(). Another process could be setting a lock on this * file at the same time, but we wouldn't remove that lock anyway. */ - before = &filp->f_dentry->d_inode->i_flock; - if (*before == NULL) + if (!filp->f_dentry->d_inode->i_flock) return; lock.fl_type = F_UNLCK; @@ -1912,25 +1911,11 @@ void locks_remove_posix(struct file *fil lock.fl_ops = NULL; lock.fl_lmops = NULL; - if (filp->f_op && filp->f_op->lock != NULL) { + if (filp->f_op && filp->f_op->lock != NULL) filp->f_op->lock(filp, F_SETLK, &lock); - goto out; - } + else + posix_lock_file(filp, &lock); - /* Can't use posix_lock_file here; we need to remove it no matter - * which pid we have. - */ - lock_kernel(); - while (*before != NULL) { - struct file_lock *fl = *before; - if (IS_POSIX(fl) && posix_same_owner(fl, &lock)) { - locks_delete_lock(before); - continue; - } - before = &fl->fl_next; - } - unlock_kernel(); -out: if (lock.fl_ops && lock.fl_ops->fl_release_private) lock.fl_ops->fl_release_private(&lock); } - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html