Scale down spin_lock_irqsave/spin_unlock_irqrestore exactly to area where it is needed. Also it makes static checkers happy as code checks kmalloc() result value exactly after call. Signed-off-by: Kulikov Vasiliy <segooon@xxxxxxxxx> --- arch/alpha/kernel/srmcons.c | 6 ++---- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/alpha/kernel/srmcons.c b/arch/alpha/kernel/srmcons.c index 783f4e5..6b04005 100644 --- a/arch/alpha/kernel/srmcons.c +++ b/arch/alpha/kernel/srmcons.c @@ -165,17 +165,15 @@ srmcons_get_private_struct(struct srmcons_private **ps) if (srmconsp == NULL) { srmconsp = kmalloc(sizeof(*srmconsp), GFP_KERNEL); - spin_lock_irqsave(&srmconsp_lock, flags); - if (srmconsp == NULL) retval = -ENOMEM; else { + spin_lock_irqsave(&srmconsp_lock, flags); srmconsp->tty = NULL; spin_lock_init(&srmconsp->lock); init_timer(&srmconsp->timer); + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&srmconsp_lock, flags); } - - spin_unlock_irqrestore(&srmconsp_lock, flags); } *ps = srmconsp; -- 1.7.0.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html