Page cache accesses are serialised using page locks, whereas attribute
updates are serialised using inode->i_lock.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <[email protected]>
---
fs/nfs/dir.c | 8 +-------
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/nfs/dir.c b/fs/nfs/dir.c
index fd8e799..2be85da 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/dir.c
@@ -1482,13 +1482,9 @@ static int nfs_symlink(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry, const char *sym
attr.ia_mode = S_IFLNK | S_IRWXUGO;
attr.ia_valid = ATTR_MODE;
- lock_kernel();
-
page = alloc_page(GFP_HIGHUSER);
- if (!page) {
- unlock_kernel();
+ if (!page)
return -ENOMEM;
- }
kaddr = kmap_atomic(page, KM_USER0);
memcpy(kaddr, symname, pathlen);
@@ -1503,7 +1499,6 @@ static int nfs_symlink(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry, const char *sym
dentry->d_name.name, symname, error);
d_drop(dentry);
__free_page(page);
- unlock_kernel();
return error;
}
@@ -1521,7 +1516,6 @@ static int nfs_symlink(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry, const char *sym
} else
__free_page(page);
- unlock_kernel();
return 0;
}