[PATCH 2/3] workqueue: remove the lock from wq_sysfs_prep_attrs()

[Lai Jiangshan]

Reading to wq->unbound_attrs requires protection of either wq_pool_mutex
or wq->mutex, and wq_sysfs_prep_attrs() is called with wq_pool_mutex held,
so we don't need to grab wq->mutex here.

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 kernel/workqueue.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/workqueue.c b/kernel/workqueue.c
index a04a9cd3..81b0e0d 100644
--- a/kernel/workqueue.c
+++ b/kernel/workqueue.c
@@ -4941,13 +4941,13 @@ static struct workqueue_attrs *wq_sysfs_prep_attrs(struct workqueue_struct *wq)
 {
 	struct workqueue_attrs *attrs;
 
+	lockdep_assert_held(&wq_pool_mutex);
+
 	attrs = alloc_workqueue_attrs(GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!attrs)
 		return NULL;
 
-	mutex_lock(&wq->mutex);
 	copy_workqueue_attrs(attrs, wq->unbound_attrs);
-	mutex_unlock(&wq->mutex);
 	return attrs;
 }
 
-- 
2.1.0

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