tty: drop the BKL for driver/ldisc ioctl methods
Now we have pushed the lock down we can stop wrapping the call with a lock in
the tty layer.
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/drivers/char/tty_io.c b/drivers/char/tty_io.c
index 2460c4c..35c7d2e 100644
--- a/drivers/char/tty_io.c
+++ b/drivers/char/tty_io.c
@@ -3459,11 +3459,8 @@
switch (cmd) {
case TIOCSBRK:
case TIOCCBRK:
- if (tty->driver->ioctl) {
- lock_kernel();
+ if (tty->driver->ioctl)
retval = tty->driver->ioctl(tty, file, cmd, arg);
- unlock_kernel();
- }
return retval;
/* These two ioctl's always return success; even if */
@@ -3584,18 +3581,14 @@
break;
}
if (tty->driver->ioctl) {
- lock_kernel();
retval = (tty->driver->ioctl)(tty, file, cmd, arg);
- unlock_kernel();
if (retval != -ENOIOCTLCMD)
return retval;
}
ld = tty_ldisc_ref_wait(tty);
retval = -EINVAL;
if (ld->ioctl) {
- lock_kernel();
retval = ld->ioctl(tty, file, cmd, arg);
- unlock_kernel();
if (retval == -ENOIOCTLCMD)
retval = -EINVAL;
}