[PATCH] tty: drop the BKL for driver/ldisc ioctl methods

[Alan Cox]

Now we have pushed the lock down we can stop wrapping the call with a
lock in the tty layer

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxx>

diff -u --new-file --recursive --exclude-from /usr/src/exclude linux.vanilla-2.6.25-rc5-mm1/drivers/char/tty_io.c linux-2.6.25-rc5-mm1/drivers/char/tty_io.c
--- linux.vanilla-2.6.25-rc5-mm1/drivers/char/tty_io.c	2008-03-18 15:52:20.000000000 +0000
+++ linux-2.6.25-rc5-mm1/drivers/char/tty_io.c	2008-03-18 15:58:26.000000000 +0000
@@ -3459,11 +3582,8 @@
 		switch (cmd) {
 		case TIOCSBRK:
 		case TIOCCBRK:
-			if (tty->driver->ioctl) {
-				lock_kernel();
+			if (tty->driver->ioctl)
 				retval = tty->driver->ioctl(tty, file, cmd, arg);
-				unlock_kernel();
-			}
 			return retval;
 
 		/* These two ioctl's always return success; even if */
@@ -3584,18 +3704,14 @@
 		break;
 	}
 	if (tty->driver->ioctl) {
-		lock_kernel();
 		retval = (tty->driver->ioctl)(tty, file, cmd, arg);
-		unlock_kernel();
 		if (retval != -ENOIOCTLCMD)
 			return retval;
 	}
 	ld = tty_ldisc_ref_wait(tty);
 	retval = -EINVAL;
 	if (ld->ioctl) {
-		lock_kernel();
 		retval = ld->ioctl(tty, file, cmd, arg);
-		unlock_kernel();
 		if (retval == -ENOIOCTLCMD)
 			retval = -EINVAL;
 	}
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