[PATCH 07/20] BKL: Remove BKL from CifsFS

From: Jan Blunck
Date: Wed Nov 18 2009 - 04:31:00 EST


The BKL is only used in put_super and fill_super that are both protected by
the superblocks s_umount rw_semaphore. Therefore it is safe to remove the
BKL entirely.

Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Steve French <smfrench@xxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/cifs/cifsfs.c | 13 +------------
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/cifs/cifsfs.c b/fs/cifs/cifsfs.c
index 09ccb9d..137d1e8 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/cifsfs.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/cifsfs.c
@@ -35,7 +35,6 @@
#include <linux/delay.h>
#include <linux/kthread.h>
#include <linux/freezer.h>
-#include <linux/smp_lock.h>
#include "cifsfs.h"
#include "cifspdu.h"
#define DECLARE_GLOBALS_HERE
@@ -201,8 +200,6 @@ cifs_put_super(struct super_block *sb)
return;
}

- lock_kernel();
-
rc = cifs_umount(sb, cifs_sb);
if (rc)
cERROR(1, ("cifs_umount failed with return code %d", rc));
@@ -215,8 +212,6 @@ cifs_put_super(struct super_block *sb)

unload_nls(cifs_sb->local_nls);
kfree(cifs_sb);
-
- unlock_kernel();
}

static int
@@ -598,28 +593,22 @@ cifs_get_sb(struct file_system_type *fs_type,
int rc;
struct super_block *sb;

- lock_kernel();
-
sb = sget(fs_type, NULL, set_anon_super, NULL);

cFYI(1, ("Devname: %s flags: %d ", dev_name, flags));

- if (IS_ERR(sb)) {
- unlock_kernel();
+ if (IS_ERR(sb))
return PTR_ERR(sb);
- }

sb->s_flags = flags;

rc = cifs_read_super(sb, data, dev_name, flags & MS_SILENT ? 1 : 0);
if (rc) {
deactivate_locked_super(sb);
- unlock_kernel();
return rc;
}
sb->s_flags |= MS_ACTIVE;
simple_set_mnt(mnt, sb);
- unlock_kernel();
return 0;
}

--
1.6.4.2

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