From ff8553d6df1dfe4231d8c56a125a42d2fb389862 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:00:14 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] --- yaml --- r: 100403 b: refs/heads/master c:
 70b028b7ea94f1b36c61f3ee1c921cc3a87812e6 h: refs/heads/master i:   100401:
 73c64c530fd8ed3f4c29a96ed5a80d31fc0a20d7   100399:
 7f8bf2feb2dc2d2ae69af5d51f6a5df964a7bcb7 v: v3

---
 [refs]                                 | 2 +-
 trunk/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_devintf.c | 2 ++
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index cee5d7f2844d..8dd780a865af 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: dda6445e219b5d1fd67e9426ce8d23f8fbfaaf66
+refs/heads/master: 70b028b7ea94f1b36c61f3ee1c921cc3a87812e6
diff --git a/trunk/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_devintf.c b/trunk/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_devintf.c
index c816656d6bfb..c11a40483459 100644
--- a/trunk/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_devintf.c
+++ b/trunk/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_devintf.c
@@ -101,7 +101,9 @@ static int ipmi_fasync(int fd, struct file *file, int on)
 	struct ipmi_file_private *priv = file->private_data;
 	int                      result;
 
+	lock_kernel(); /* could race against open() otherwise */
 	result = fasync_helper(fd, file, on, &priv->fasync_queue);
+	unlock_kernel();
 
 	return (result);
 }