Merge branch 'akpm' (final batch from Andrew)

Merge third patch-bumb from Andrew Morton:
 "This wraps me up for -rc1.
   - Lots of misc stuff and things which were deferred/missed from
     patchbombings 1 & 2.
   - ocfs2 things
   - lib/scatterlist
   - hfsplus
   - fatfs
   - documentation
   - signals
   - procfs
   - lockdep
   - coredump
   - seqfile core
   - kexec
   - Tejun's large IDR tree reworkings
   - ipmi
   - partitions
   - nbd
   - random() things
   - kfifo
   - tools/testing/selftests updates
   - Sasha's large and pointless hlist cleanup"

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (163 commits)
  hlist: drop the node parameter from iterators
  kcmp: make it depend on CHECKPOINT_RESTORE
  selftests: add a simple doc
  tools/testing/selftests/Makefile: rearrange targets
  selftests/efivarfs: add create-read test
  selftests/efivarfs: add empty file creation test
  selftests: add tests for efivarfs
  kfifo: fix kfifo_alloc() and kfifo_init()
  kfifo: move kfifo.c from kernel/ to lib/
  arch Kconfig: centralise CONFIG_ARCH_NO_VIRT_TO_BUS
  w1: add support for DS2413 Dual Channel Addressable Switch
  memstick: move the dereference below the NULL test
  drivers/pps/clients/pps-gpio.c: use devm_kzalloc
  Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt: fix typo
  include/linux/eventfd.h: fix incorrect filename is a comment
  mtd: mtd_stresstest: use prandom_bytes()
  mtd: mtd_subpagetest: convert to use prandom library
  mtd: mtd_speedtest: use prandom_bytes
  mtd: mtd_pagetest: convert to use prandom library
  mtd: mtd_oobtest: convert to use prandom library
  ...

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/char/misc.c b/drivers/char/misc.c
index 522136d40843..190d4423653f 100644
--- a/drivers/char/misc.c
+++ b/drivers/char/misc.c
@@ -183,19 +183,12 @@ static const struct file_operations misc_fops = {
  
 int misc_register(struct miscdevice * misc)
 {
-	struct miscdevice *c;
 	dev_t dev;
 	int err = 0;
 
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&misc->list);
 
 	mutex_lock(&misc_mtx);
-	list_for_each_entry(c, &misc_list, list) {
-		if (c->minor == misc->minor) {
-			mutex_unlock(&misc_mtx);
-			return -EBUSY;
-		}
-	}
 
 	if (misc->minor == MISC_DYNAMIC_MINOR) {
 		int i = find_first_zero_bit(misc_minors, DYNAMIC_MINORS);
@@ -205,6 +198,15 @@ int misc_register(struct miscdevice * misc)
 		}
 		misc->minor = DYNAMIC_MINORS - i - 1;
 		set_bit(i, misc_minors);
+	} else {
+		struct miscdevice *c;
+
+		list_for_each_entry(c, &misc_list, list) {
+			if (c->minor == misc->minor) {
+				mutex_unlock(&misc_mtx);
+				return -EBUSY;
+			}
+		}
 	}
 
 	dev = MKDEV(MISC_MAJOR, misc->minor);