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Commit 15392efb authored by Arnd Bergmann's avatar Arnd Bergmann Committed by Jens Axboe
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block: remove BKL from partition ioctls 



The blkpg_ioctl and blkdev_reread_part access fields of
the bdev and gendisk structures, yet they always do so
under the protection of bdev->bd_mutex, which seems
sufficient.

Signed-off-by: default avatarArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
cked-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
parent 6de43703

block/ioctl.c

+0 −4
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@@ -296,14 +296,10 @@ int blkdev_ioctl(struct block_device *bdev, fmode_t mode, unsigned cmd, 
			bd_release(bdev);

		return ret;

	case BLKPG:

		lock_kernel();

		ret = blkpg_ioctl(bdev, (struct blkpg_ioctl_arg __user *) arg);

		unlock_kernel();

		break;

	case BLKRRPART:

		lock_kernel();

		ret = blkdev_reread_part(bdev);

		unlock_kernel();

		break;

	case BLKGETSIZE:

		size = bdev->bd_inode->i_size;