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author | Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com> | 2014-07-08 15:28:33 +0400 |
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committer | Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com> | 2014-07-19 00:24:00 +0400 |
commit | 82f990a82244f8dfeb7e776186dc4811eb651ed7 (patch) | |
tree | d47030c4f6972cb17769aa5dd019335d829f7651 /include/linux/efi.h | |
parent | f383d00a0d1f94a7d60c753ec8e3e402889f9622 (diff) | |
download | linux-82f990a82244f8dfeb7e776186dc4811eb651ed7.tar.xz |
efi: Update stale locking comment for struct efivars
The comment describing how struct efivars->lock is used hasn't been
updated in sync with the code. Fix it.
Reported-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Cc: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/efi.h')
-rw-r--r-- | include/linux/efi.h | 8 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/efi.h b/include/linux/efi.h index 59c8acfebca7..efc681fd5895 100644 --- a/include/linux/efi.h +++ b/include/linux/efi.h @@ -1040,12 +1040,8 @@ struct efivar_operations { struct efivars { /* * ->lock protects two things: - * 1) ->list - adds, removals, reads, writes - * 2) ops.[gs]et_variable() calls. - * It must not be held when creating sysfs entries or calling kmalloc. - * ops.get_next_variable() is only called from register_efivars() - * or efivar_update_sysfs_entries(), - * which is protected by the BKL, so that path is safe. + * 1) efivarfs_list and efivars_sysfs_list + * 2) ->ops calls */ spinlock_t lock; struct kset *kset; |