No reason to grab the BKL before calling into the btrfs ioctl code. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Index: btrfs-0d4a5b197024/ctree.h ==================================================================--- btrfs-0d4a5b197024.orig/ctree.h 2007-09-14 13:30:33.000000000 +0200 +++ btrfs-0d4a5b197024/ctree.h 2007-09-14 13:31:33.000000000 +0200 @@ -1219,10 +1219,7 @@ struct inode *btrfs_alloc_inode(struct s void btrfs_destroy_inode(struct inode *inode); int btrfs_init_cachep(void); void btrfs_destroy_cachep(void); -int btrfs_ioctl(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp, unsigned int cmd, - unsigned long arg); -long btrfs_compat_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, - unsigned long arg); +long btrfs_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg); struct inode *btrfs_iget_locked(struct super_block *s, u64 objectid, struct btrfs_root *root); int btrfs_commit_write(struct file *file, struct page *page, Index: btrfs-0d4a5b197024/file.c ==================================================================--- btrfs-0d4a5b197024.orig/file.c 2007-09-14 13:30:33.000000000 +0200 +++ btrfs-0d4a5b197024/file.c 2007-09-14 13:31:33.000000000 +0200 @@ -732,10 +732,10 @@ struct file_operations btrfs_file_operat .write = btrfs_file_write, .mmap = btrfs_file_mmap, .open = generic_file_open, - .ioctl = btrfs_ioctl, .fsync = btrfs_sync_file, + .unlocked_ioctl = btrfs_ioctl, #ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT - .compat_ioctl = btrfs_compat_ioctl, + .compat_ioctl = btrfs_ioctl, #endif }; Index: btrfs-0d4a5b197024/inode.c ==================================================================--- btrfs-0d4a5b197024.orig/inode.c 2007-09-14 13:30:33.000000000 +0200 +++ btrfs-0d4a5b197024/inode.c 2007-09-14 13:32:04.000000000 +0200 @@ -1957,9 +1957,10 @@ out_unlock: return 0; } -int btrfs_ioctl(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp, unsigned int +long btrfs_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg) { + struct inode *inode = file->f_path.dentry->d_inode; struct btrfs_root *root = BTRFS_I(inode)->root; struct btrfs_ioctl_vol_args vol_args; int ret = 0; @@ -2007,7 +2008,7 @@ int btrfs_ioctl(struct inode *inode, str btrfs_defrag_root(root->fs_info->extent_root, 0); mutex_unlock(&root->fs_info->fs_mutex); } else if (S_ISREG(inode->i_mode)) { - btrfs_defrag_file(filp); + btrfs_defrag_file(file); } ret = 0; break; @@ -2017,20 +2018,6 @@ int btrfs_ioctl(struct inode *inode, str return ret; } -#ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT -long btrfs_compat_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, - unsigned long arg) -{ - struct inode *inode = file->f_path.dentry->d_inode; - int ret; - lock_kernel(); - ret = btrfs_ioctl(inode, file, cmd, (unsigned long) compat_ptr(arg)); - unlock_kernel(); - return ret; - -} -#endif - /* * Called inside transaction, so use GFP_NOFS */ @@ -2348,9 +2335,9 @@ static struct file_operations btrfs_dir_ .llseek = generic_file_llseek, .read = generic_read_dir, .readdir = btrfs_readdir, - .ioctl = btrfs_ioctl, + .unlocked_ioctl = btrfs_ioctl, #ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT - .compat_ioctl = btrfs_compat_ioctl, + .compat_ioctl = btrfs_ioctl, #endif };