The misc_mtx should provide all the protection required to keep the daemon
hash table sane during miscdev registration. Since this mutex is causing
gratuitous lockdep warnings, this patch removes it.
Signed-off-by: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
Reported-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
int rc;
atomic_set(&ecryptfs_num_miscdev_opens, 0);
- mutex_lock(&ecryptfs_daemon_hash_mux);
rc = misc_register(&ecryptfs_miscdev);
if (rc)
printk(KERN_ERR "%s: Failed to register miscellaneous device "
"for communications with userspace daemons; rc = [%d]\n",
__func__, rc);
- mutex_unlock(&ecryptfs_daemon_hash_mux);
return rc;
}