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| author | Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> | 2008-05-18 15:32:43 -0600 |
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| committer | Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> | 2008-06-20 14:05:53 -0600 |
| commit | f2b9857eee17797541b845782ade4d7a9d50f843 (patch) | |
| tree | 914a00afee2ff953199f99f7cf869e3fd83b36bd /drivers/net | |
| parent | 0b2806768899dba5967bcd4a3b93eaed9a1dc4f3 (diff) | |
Add a bunch of cycle_kernel_lock() calls
All of the open() functions which don't need the BKL on their face may
still depend on its acquisition to serialize opens against driver
initialization. So make those functions acquire then release the BKL to be
on the safe side.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/ppp_generic.c | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ppp_generic.c b/drivers/net/ppp_generic.c index dc8505062da7..83625fdff3dd 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ppp_generic.c +++ b/drivers/net/ppp_generic.c @@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ #include <linux/if_arp.h> #include <linux/ip.h> #include <linux/tcp.h> +#include <linux/smp_lock.h> #include <linux/spinlock.h> #include <linux/rwsem.h> #include <linux/stddef.h> @@ -351,9 +352,9 @@ static const int npindex_to_ethertype[NUM_NP] = { * Open instances of /dev/ppp can be in one of three states: * unattached, attached to a ppp unit, or attached to a ppp channel. */ -/* No BKL needed here */ static int ppp_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file) { + cycle_kernel_lock(); /* * This could (should?) be enforced by the permissions on /dev/ppp. */ |