[PATCH] sonypi: Kill off the BKL in the ioctl

From: Alan Cox
Date: Mon Jan 04 2010 - 11:44:49 EST


And another thats been ignored for several months

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All the internal logic is protected properly by the existing mutex locking

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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drivers/char/sonypi.c | 6 +++---
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)


diff --git a/drivers/char/sonypi.c b/drivers/char/sonypi.c
index 0798754..6a574bf 100644
--- a/drivers/char/sonypi.c
+++ b/drivers/char/sonypi.c
@@ -955,8 +955,8 @@ static unsigned int sonypi_misc_poll(struct file *file, poll_table *wait)
return 0;
}

-static int sonypi_misc_ioctl(struct inode *ip, struct file *fp,
- unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
+static long sonypi_misc_ioctl(struct file *fp,
+ unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
{
int ret = 0;
void __user *argp = (void __user *)arg;
@@ -1074,7 +1074,7 @@ static const struct file_operations sonypi_misc_fops = {
.open = sonypi_misc_open,
.release = sonypi_misc_release,
.fasync = sonypi_misc_fasync,
- .ioctl = sonypi_misc_ioctl,
+ .unlocked_ioctl = sonypi_misc_ioctl,
};

static struct miscdevice sonypi_misc_device = {

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