The spin_lock_irqsave is moved to just beginning of critical section. This change moves a couple of return statements out of the lock. Signed-off-by: Chandra S Gorentla <csgorentla@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/staging/wilc1000/wilc_msgqueue.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/wilc1000/wilc_msgqueue.c b/drivers/staging/wilc1000/wilc_msgqueue.c index d5ebd6d..284a3f5 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/wilc1000/wilc_msgqueue.c +++ b/drivers/staging/wilc1000/wilc_msgqueue.c @@ -72,8 +72,6 @@ int wilc_mq_send(WILC_MsgQueueHandle *pHandle, goto ERRORHANDLER; } - spin_lock_irqsave(&pHandle->strCriticalSection, flags); - /* construct a new message */ pstrMessage = kmalloc(sizeof(Message), GFP_ATOMIC); if (!pstrMessage) @@ -87,6 +85,8 @@ int wilc_mq_send(WILC_MsgQueueHandle *pHandle, } memcpy(pstrMessage->pvBuffer, pvSendBuffer, u32SendBufferSize); + spin_lock_irqsave(&pHandle->strCriticalSection, flags); + /* add it to the message queue */ if (!pHandle->pstrMessageList) { pHandle->pstrMessageList = pstrMessage; -- 2.1.4 _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel