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authorMichael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>2008-07-04 18:59:35 +0200
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-07-04 19:40:05 +0200
commitc4a2d7fbec3029c8891a3ad5fceec2992096a3b7 (patch)
tree73d1580628737c54c9d4fed86278e9edc4dab4d2 /fs/ecryptfs/miscdev.c
parentreiserfs: add missing unlock to an error path in reiserfs_quota_write() (diff)
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ecryptfs: remove unnecessary mux from ecryptfs_init_ecryptfs_miscdev()
The misc_mtx should provide all the protection required to keep the daemon hash table sane during miscdev registration. Since this mutex is causing gratuitous lockdep warnings, this patch removes it. Signed-off-by: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com> Reported-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/ecryptfs/miscdev.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/ecryptfs/miscdev.c2
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ecryptfs/miscdev.c b/fs/ecryptfs/miscdev.c
index 50c994a249a5..09a4522f65e6 100644
--- a/fs/ecryptfs/miscdev.c
+++ b/fs/ecryptfs/miscdev.c
@@ -575,13 +575,11 @@ int ecryptfs_init_ecryptfs_miscdev(void)
int rc;
atomic_set(&ecryptfs_num_miscdev_opens, 0);
- mutex_lock(&ecryptfs_daemon_hash_mux);
rc = misc_register(&ecryptfs_miscdev);
if (rc)
printk(KERN_ERR "%s: Failed to register miscellaneous device "
"for communications with userspace daemons; rc = [%d]\n",
__func__, rc);
- mutex_unlock(&ecryptfs_daemon_hash_mux);
return rc;
}