Commit 50bed2e2862a ("sg: disable interrupts inside sg_copy_buffer") introduced disabling interrupts in sg_copy_buffer() since atomic uses of miter required it due to use of kmap_atomic().
However, as commit 8290e2d2dcbf ("scatterlist: atomic sg_mapping_iter() no longer needs disabled IRQs") acknowledges disabling interrupts is no longer needed for calls to kmap_atomic() and therefore unneeded for miter ops either, so remove it from sg_copy_buffer(). Signed-off-by: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gi...@benyossef.com> --- lib/scatterlist.c | 4 ---- 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/lib/scatterlist.c b/lib/scatterlist.c index 393920f..c6cf822 100644 --- a/lib/scatterlist.c +++ b/lib/scatterlist.c @@ -651,7 +651,6 @@ size_t sg_copy_buffer(struct scatterlist *sgl, unsigned int nents, void *buf, { unsigned int offset = 0; struct sg_mapping_iter miter; - unsigned long flags; unsigned int sg_flags = SG_MITER_ATOMIC; if (to_buffer) @@ -664,8 +663,6 @@ size_t sg_copy_buffer(struct scatterlist *sgl, unsigned int nents, void *buf, if (!sg_miter_skip(&miter, skip)) return false; - local_irq_save(flags); - while ((offset < buflen) && sg_miter_next(&miter)) { unsigned int len; @@ -681,7 +678,6 @@ size_t sg_copy_buffer(struct scatterlist *sgl, unsigned int nents, void *buf, sg_miter_stop(&miter); - local_irq_restore(flags); return offset; } EXPORT_SYMBOL(sg_copy_buffer); -- 2.1.4