Commit 635244c5 authored by Matthias Kaehlcke's avatar Matthias Kaehlcke Committed by Linus Torvalds

fix spinlock usage in hysdn_log_close()

Fix incorrect spinlock use in hysdn_log_close().  The function declared a
spinlock on the stack and used it to 'protect' a shared driver structure.

The patch simply removes the useless code.
Signed-off-by: default avatarMatthias Kaehlcke <matthias.kaehlcke@gmail.com>
Cc: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 13af68ee
......@@ -297,8 +297,6 @@ hysdn_log_close(struct inode *ino, struct file *filep)
struct procdata *pd;
hysdn_card *card;
int retval = 0;
unsigned long flags;
spinlock_t hysdn_lock = SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED;
lock_kernel();
if ((filep->f_mode & (FMODE_READ | FMODE_WRITE)) == FMODE_WRITE) {
......@@ -308,7 +306,6 @@ hysdn_log_close(struct inode *ino, struct file *filep)
/* read access -> log/debug read, mark one further file as closed */
pd = NULL;
spin_lock_irqsave(&hysdn_lock, flags);
inf = *((struct log_data **) filep->private_data); /* get first log entry */
if (inf)
pd = (struct procdata *) inf->proc_ctrl; /* still entries there */
......@@ -331,7 +328,6 @@ hysdn_log_close(struct inode *ino, struct file *filep)
inf->usage_cnt--; /* decrement usage count for buffers */
inf = inf->next;
}
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&hysdn_lock, flags);
if (pd)
if (pd->if_used <= 0) /* delete buffers if last file closed */
......
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