x86: vdso: Remove bogus locking in update_vsyscall_tz()

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Changing the sequence count in update_vsyscall_tz() is completely
pointless.

The vdso code copies the data unprotected. There is no point to change
this as sys_tz is nowhere protected at all. See sys_gettimeofday().

Reviewed-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>

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Thomas Gleixner 2012-02-28 19:46:04 +00:00 • committed by John Stultz

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arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_64.c

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