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Commit 15392efb9d427482754f6d267262452878667499

Authored by Arnd Bergmann
Committed by Jens Axboe
1 parent 6de4370310

block: remove BKL from partition ioctls 

The blkpg_ioctl and blkdev_reread_part access fields of
the bdev and gendisk structures, yet they always do so
under the protection of bdev->bd_mutex, which seems
sufficient.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
cked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

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296 296 bd_release(bdev);
297 297 return ret;
298 298 case BLKPG:
299   - lock_kernel();
300 299 ret = blkpg_ioctl(bdev, (struct blkpg_ioctl_arg __user *) arg);
301   - unlock_kernel();
302 300 break;
303 301 case BLKRRPART:
304   - lock_kernel();
305 302 ret = blkdev_reread_part(bdev);
306   - unlock_kernel();
307 303 break;
308 304 case BLKGETSIZE:
309 305 size = bdev->bd_inode->i_size;