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-rw-r--r--drivers/char/generic_nvram.c7
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/generic_nvram.c b/drivers/char/generic_nvram.c
index 82b5a88a82d7..0e941b57482e 100644
--- a/drivers/char/generic_nvram.c
+++ b/drivers/char/generic_nvram.c
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
#include <linux/miscdevice.h>
#include <linux/fcntl.h>
#include <linux/init.h>
-#include <linux/smp_lock.h>
+#include <linux/mutex.h>
#include <asm/uaccess.h>
#include <asm/nvram.h>
#ifdef CONFIG_PPC_PMAC
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
#define NVRAM_SIZE 8192
+static DEFINE_MUTEX(nvram_mutex);
static ssize_t nvram_len;
static loff_t nvram_llseek(struct file *file, loff_t offset, int origin)
@@ -120,9 +121,9 @@ static long nvram_unlocked_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, unsigned l
{
int ret;
- lock_kernel();
+ mutex_lock(&nvram_mutex);
ret = nvram_ioctl(file, cmd, arg);
- unlock_kernel();
+ mutex_unlock(&nvram_mutex);
return ret;
}