From 70b028b7ea94f1b36c61f3ee1c921cc3a87812e6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jonathan Corbet Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:00:14 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] ipmi: fasync BKL pushdown This driver really needs it to avoid races against open() Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet --- drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_devintf.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_devintf.c b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_devintf.c index c816656d6bfb..c11a40483459 100644 --- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_devintf.c +++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_devintf.c @@ -101,7 +101,9 @@ static int ipmi_fasync(int fd, struct file *file, int on) struct ipmi_file_private *priv = file->private_data; int result; + lock_kernel(); /* could race against open() otherwise */ result = fasync_helper(fd, file, on, &priv->fasync_queue); + unlock_kernel(); return (result); }