The BKL is still used in ext4_put_super(), ext4_fill_super() and ext4_remount(). All three calles are protected against concurrent calls by the s_umount rw semaphore of struct super_block. Therefore the BKL is protecting nothing in this case. Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@xxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/super.c | 16 +--------------- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c index 9db81d2..328e9dc 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/super.c +++ b/fs/ext4/super.c @@ -26,7 +26,6 @@ #include <linux/init.h> #include <linux/blkdev.h> #include <linux/parser.h> -#include <linux/smp_lock.h> #include <linux/buffer_head.h> #include <linux/exportfs.h> #include <linux/vfs.h> @@ -599,7 +598,6 @@ static void ext4_put_super(struct super_block *sb) destroy_workqueue(sbi->dio_unwritten_wq); lock_super(sb); - lock_kernel(); if (sb->s_dirt) ext4_commit_super(sb, 1); @@ -665,7 +663,6 @@ static void ext4_put_super(struct super_block *sb) * Now that we are completely done shutting down the * superblock, we need to actually destroy the kobject. */ - unlock_kernel(); unlock_super(sb); kobject_put(&sbi->s_kobj); wait_for_completion(&sbi->s_kobj_unregister); @@ -2328,19 +2325,14 @@ static int ext4_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent) int err; unsigned int journal_ioprio = DEFAULT_JOURNAL_IOPRIO; - lock_kernel(); - sbi = kzalloc(sizeof(*sbi), GFP_KERNEL); - if (!sbi) { - unlock_kernel(); + if (!sbi) return -ENOMEM; - } sbi->s_blockgroup_lock = kzalloc(sizeof(struct blockgroup_lock), GFP_KERNEL); if (!sbi->s_blockgroup_lock) { kfree(sbi); - unlock_kernel(); return -ENOMEM; } sb->s_fs_info = sbi; @@ -2352,8 +2344,6 @@ static int ext4_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent) sbi->s_sectors_written_start = part_stat_read(sb->s_bdev->bd_part, sectors[1]); - unlock_kernel(); - /* Cleanup superblock name */ for (cp = sb->s_id; (cp = strchr(cp, '/'));) *cp = '!'; @@ -3456,8 +3446,6 @@ static int ext4_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; @@ -3587,7 +3575,6 @@ static int ext4_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: @@ -3608,7 +3595,6 @@ restore_opts: } #endif unlock_super(sb); - unlock_kernel(); return err; } -- 1.6.4.2 -- 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