Commit 82f990a8 authored by Matt Fleming's avatar Matt Fleming

efi: Update stale locking comment for struct efivars

The comment describing how struct efivars->lock is used hasn't been
updated in sync with the code. Fix it.
Reported-by: default avatarArd Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Cc: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMatt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
parent f383d00a
...@@ -1040,12 +1040,8 @@ struct efivar_operations { ...@@ -1040,12 +1040,8 @@ struct efivar_operations {
struct efivars { struct efivars {
/* /*
* ->lock protects two things: * ->lock protects two things:
* 1) ->list - adds, removals, reads, writes * 1) efivarfs_list and efivars_sysfs_list
* 2) ops.[gs]et_variable() calls. * 2) ->ops calls
* It must not be held when creating sysfs entries or calling kmalloc.
* ops.get_next_variable() is only called from register_efivars()
* or efivar_update_sysfs_entries(),
* which is protected by the BKL, so that path is safe.
*/ */
spinlock_t lock; spinlock_t lock;
struct kset *kset; struct kset *kset;
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