From 1c857a6c2fd225d6876f7873e92876f6c51d3ce5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 11:04:19 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] --- yaml --- r: 100281 b: refs/heads/master c:
 1f439647a4072ec64bb2e4b9290cd7be6aee8328 h: refs/heads/master i:   100279:
 6f12125be16d4f4f9a3f1969d4a30c8a0fb95aef v: v3

---
 [refs]                   |  2 +-
 trunk/drivers/char/mem.c | 10 ++++++++--
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index 41605d4d4e69..491260915e56 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: ecc38983f6c83f371fefb5a69a72e358fc7b1218
+refs/heads/master: 1f439647a4072ec64bb2e4b9290cd7be6aee8328
diff --git a/trunk/drivers/char/mem.c b/trunk/drivers/char/mem.c
index 934ffafedaea..070e22e8ea9e 100644
--- a/trunk/drivers/char/mem.c
+++ b/trunk/drivers/char/mem.c
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
 #include <linux/bootmem.h>
 #include <linux/splice.h>
 #include <linux/pfn.h>
+#include <linux/smp_lock.h>
 
 #include <asm/uaccess.h>
 #include <asm/io.h>
@@ -889,6 +890,9 @@ static const struct file_operations kmsg_fops = {
 
 static int memory_open(struct inode * inode, struct file * filp)
 {
+	int ret = 0;
+
+	lock_kernel();
 	switch (iminor(inode)) {
 		case 1:
 			filp->f_op = &mem_fops;
@@ -932,11 +936,13 @@ static int memory_open(struct inode * inode, struct file * filp)
 			break;
 #endif
 		default:
+			unlock_kernel();
 			return -ENXIO;
 	}
 	if (filp->f_op && filp->f_op->open)
-		return filp->f_op->open(inode,filp);
-	return 0;
+		ret = filp->f_op->open(inode,filp);
+	unlock_kernel();
+	return ret;
 }
 
 static const struct file_operations memory_fops = {