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| -rw-r--r-- | fs/eventpoll.c | 4 |
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diff --git a/fs/eventpoll.c b/fs/eventpoll.c index a3acf936c72..5744a7f0187 100644 --- a/fs/eventpoll.c +++ b/fs/eventpoll.c @@ -745,11 +745,15 @@ static void ep_free(struct eventpoll *ep) * point we are sure no poll callbacks will be lingering around, and also by * holding "epmutex" we can be sure that no file cleanup code will hit * us during this operation. So we can avoid the lock on "ep->lock". + * We do not need to lock ep->mtx, either, we only do it to prevent + * a lockdep warning. */ + mutex_lock(&ep->mtx); while ((rbp = rb_first(&ep->rbr)) != NULL) { epi = rb_entry(rbp, struct epitem, rbn); ep_remove(ep, epi); } + mutex_unlock(&ep->mtx); mutex_unlock(&epmutex); mutex_destroy(&ep->mtx); |