Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 13:21:00 -0700
From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
To: Paolo Ciarrocchi <paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, gorcunov@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [JANITOR PROPOSAL] Switch ioctl functions to ->unlocked_ioctl
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On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 01:16:06PM -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 09:03:13PM +0100, Paolo Ciarrocchi wrote:
> > Yes of course, I've been silly in didn't verify whether the file compile
> > but I would appreciate to know whether I'm on the right track or not.
> 
> Well ... you're not.

Here's what a correct conversion might look like.  I haven't tried to
compile it, so I'm copying and pasting it in order to damage whitespace
and make sure nobody tries to compile it.

index bf1075e..0c543a8 100644
--- a/arch/arm/common/rtctime.c
+++ b/arch/arm/common/rtctime.c
@@ -174,8 +174,7 @@ static unsigned int rtc_poll(struct file *file, poll_table *
        return data != 0 ? POLLIN | POLLRDNORM : 0;
 }
 
-static int rtc_ioctl(struct inode *inode, struct file *file, unsigned int cmd,
-                    unsigned long arg)
+static long rtc_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
 {
        struct rtc_ops *ops = file->private_data;
        struct rtc_time tm;
@@ -183,6 +182,8 @@ static int rtc_ioctl(struct inode *inode, struct file *file,
        void __user *uarg = (void __user *)arg;
        int ret = -EINVAL;
 
+       lock_kernel();
+
        switch (cmd) {
        case RTC_ALM_READ:
                ret = rtc_arm_read_alarm(ops, &alrm);
@@ -277,6 +278,9 @@ static int rtc_ioctl(struct inode *inode, struct file *file,
                        ret = ops->ioctl(cmd, arg);
                break;
        }
+
+       unlock_kernel();
+
        return ret;
 }
 
@@ -334,7 +338,7 @@ static const struct file_operations rtc_fops = {
        .llseek         = no_llseek,
        .read           = rtc_read,
        .poll           = rtc_poll,
-       .ioctl          = rtc_ioctl,
+       .unlocked_ioctl = rtc_ioctl,
        .open           = rtc_open,
        .release        = rtc_release,
        .fasync         = rtc_fasync,


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"Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this
operating system, but compare it to ours.  We can't possibly take such
a retrograde step."
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