From 25708a5fe7467dcc69d9b92c1701aad4a0c71887 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: John Kacur Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:44:40 +0200 Subject: blackfin: Remove the BKL from sys_execve This looks like a cut-and-paste job. For example, compare this function to sys_execve in arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c and it is almost line by line the same, except the one in x86 nolonger has the big kernel lock. All of the functions called between the lock are generic and not specific to blackfin - thus, I believe it is safe to remove the bkl here. Signed-off-by: John Kacur Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker Acked-by: Mike Frysinger LKML-Reference: Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner --- arch/blackfin/kernel/process.c | 6 +----- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-) (limited to 'arch/blackfin/kernel/process.c') diff --git a/arch/blackfin/kernel/process.c b/arch/blackfin/kernel/process.c index 430ae39456e8..7d9c9750fd93 100644 --- a/arch/blackfin/kernel/process.c +++ b/arch/blackfin/kernel/process.c @@ -215,22 +215,18 @@ copy_thread(unsigned long clone_flags, /* * sys_execve() executes a new program. */ - asmlinkage int sys_execve(char __user *name, char __user * __user *argv, char __user * __user *envp) { int error; char *filename; struct pt_regs *regs = (struct pt_regs *)((&name) + 6); - lock_kernel(); filename = getname(name); error = PTR_ERR(filename); if (IS_ERR(filename)) - goto out; + return error; error = do_execve(filename, argv, envp, regs); putname(filename); - out: - unlock_kernel(); return error; } -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b