Seems to me that BKL is not needed here because necessary locking is already provided by mutex sisusb->lock. Also change the returned value to long. Signed-off-by: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/usb/misc/sisusbvga/sisusb.c | 5 +---- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/usb/misc/sisusbvga/sisusb.c b/drivers/usb/misc/sisusbvga/sisusb.c index 8b37a4b..79b4175 100644 --- a/drivers/usb/misc/sisusbvga/sisusb.c +++ b/drivers/usb/misc/sisusbvga/sisusb.c @@ -47,7 +47,6 @@ #include <linux/spinlock.h> #include <linux/kref.h> #include <linux/usb.h> -#include <linux/smp_lock.h> #include <linux/vmalloc.h> #include "sisusb.h" @@ -2964,13 +2963,12 @@ sisusb_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg) struct sisusb_usb_data *sisusb; struct sisusb_info x; struct sisusb_command y; - int retval = 0; + long retval = 0; u32 __user *argp = (u32 __user *)arg; if (!(sisusb = (struct sisusb_usb_data *)file->private_data)) return -ENODEV; - lock_kernel(); mutex_lock(&sisusb->lock); /* Sanity check */ @@ -3029,7 +3027,6 @@ sisusb_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg) err_out: mutex_unlock(&sisusb->lock); - unlock_kernel(); return retval; } -- 1.6.3.3 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
