From: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>

We already call everything except do_proc_readlink outside of the BKL in
proc_pid_followlink, and there appears to be nothing in do_proc_readlink that
needs any special protection.

So remove this leftover from one of the BKL cleanup efforts.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
---

 fs/proc/base.c |    2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff -puN fs/proc/base.c~proc-remove-useless-bkl-in-proc_pid_readlink fs/proc/base.c
--- a/fs/proc/base.c~proc-remove-useless-bkl-in-proc_pid_readlink
+++ a/fs/proc/base.c
@@ -1167,7 +1167,6 @@ static int proc_pid_readlink(struct dent
 	struct dentry *de;
 	struct vfsmount *mnt = NULL;
 
-	lock_kernel();
 
 	if (current->fsuid != inode->i_uid && !capable(CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE))
 		goto out;
@@ -1183,7 +1182,6 @@ static int proc_pid_readlink(struct dent
 	dput(de);
 	mntput(mnt);
 out:
-	unlock_kernel();
 	return error;
 }
 
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