Commit 5f202bd5 authored by Arnd Bergmann's avatar Arnd Bergmann Committed by Frederic Weisbecker

do_coredump: Do not take BKL

core_pattern is not actually protected and hasn't been
ever since we introduced procfs support for sysctl -- a
_long_ time. Don't take it here either.

Also nothing inside do_coredump appears to require bkl
protection.
Signed-off-by: default avatarArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
[ remove smp_lock.h headers ]
Signed-off-by: default avatarFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
parent 5e3d20a6
......@@ -28,7 +28,6 @@
#include <linux/mm.h>
#include <linux/stat.h>
#include <linux/fcntl.h>
#include <linux/smp_lock.h>
#include <linux/swap.h>
#include <linux/string.h>
#include <linux/init.h>
......@@ -1891,13 +1890,7 @@ void do_coredump(long signr, int exit_code, struct pt_regs *regs)
*/
clear_thread_flag(TIF_SIGPENDING);
/*
* lock_kernel() because format_corename() is controlled by sysctl, which
* uses lock_kernel()
*/
lock_kernel();
ispipe = format_corename(corename, signr);
unlock_kernel();
if (ispipe) {
int dump_count;
......
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