From 759d7c6c47cf1439171d057a226453e96856c5de Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Diego Woitasen <diego@woitasen.com.ar>
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 23:26:17 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Remove unneeded lock_kernel() in driver/block/loop.c

Signed-off-by: Diego Woitasen <diego@woitasen.com.ar>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---
 drivers/block/loop.c | 2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/block/loop.c b/drivers/block/loop.c
index e5a051577a5e..589cbbd9cd4f 100644
--- a/drivers/block/loop.c
+++ b/drivers/block/loop.c
@@ -1285,7 +1285,6 @@ static long lo_compat_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long a
 	struct loop_device *lo = inode->i_bdev->bd_disk->private_data;
 	int err;
 
-	lock_kernel();
 	switch(cmd) {
 	case LOOP_SET_STATUS:
 		mutex_lock(&lo->lo_ctl_mutex);
@@ -1311,7 +1310,6 @@ static long lo_compat_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long a
 		err = -ENOIOCTLCMD;
 		break;
 	}
-	unlock_kernel();
 	return err;
 }
 #endif
-- 
2.30.2