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-rw-r--r--fs/char_dev.c5
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/fs/char_dev.c b/fs/char_dev.c
index a54d69369b2f..3cb7cda3d780 100644
--- a/fs/char_dev.c
+++ b/fs/char_dev.c
@@ -394,11 +394,8 @@ static int chrdev_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
cdev_put(p);
return -ENXIO;
}
- if (filp->f_op->open) {
- lock_kernel();
+ if (filp->f_op->open)
ret = filp->f_op->open(inode,filp);
- unlock_kernel();
- }
if (ret)
cdev_put(p);
return ret;