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authorArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>2008-05-20 19:16:59 +0200
committerJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>2008-07-02 23:06:26 +0200
commit6c111d886317513605c459cbe8d1970fab732c90 (patch)
treea708241a865cf3f31d6356053394ddbbbbfe0d0a
parentvia-pmu: BKL pushdown (diff)
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vmcp: BKL pushdown
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
-rw-r--r--drivers/s390/char/vmcp.c4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/s390/char/vmcp.c b/drivers/s390/char/vmcp.c
index 2f419b0ea628..bf3dc6e0e33a 100644
--- a/drivers/s390/char/vmcp.c
+++ b/drivers/s390/char/vmcp.c
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
#include <linux/kernel.h>
#include <linux/miscdevice.h>
#include <linux/module.h>
+#include <linux/smp_lock.h>
#include <asm/cpcmd.h>
#include <asm/debug.h>
#include <asm/uaccess.h>
@@ -39,11 +40,14 @@ static int vmcp_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
session = kmalloc(sizeof(*session), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!session)
return -ENOMEM;
+
+ lock_kernel();
session->bufsize = PAGE_SIZE;
session->response = NULL;
session->resp_size = 0;
mutex_init(&session->mutex);
file->private_data = session;
+ unlock_kernel();
return nonseekable_open(inode, file);
}