The success path and the error path both are first doing spin_unlock_irqrestore() before returning. Use that in the common path and return the success/error value. Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- v2: changed label name It is dependent on the patch series sent by Benjamin (Nov 30th). drivers/staging/unisys/visornic/visornic_main.c | 12 +++++++----- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/unisys/visornic/visornic_main.c b/drivers/staging/unisys/visornic/visornic_main.c index 77fd1ef..342c0bf 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/unisys/visornic/visornic_main.c +++ b/drivers/staging/unisys/visornic/visornic_main.c @@ -357,15 +357,16 @@ visornic_serverdown(struct visornic_devdata *devdata, visorbus_state_complete_func complete_func) { unsigned long flags; + int retval = 0; spin_lock_irqsave(&devdata->priv_lock, flags); if (!devdata->server_down && !devdata->server_change_state) { if (devdata->going_away) { - spin_unlock_irqrestore(&devdata->priv_lock, flags); dev_dbg(&devdata->dev->device, "%s aborting because device removal pending\n", __func__); - return -ENODEV; + retval = -ENODEV; + goto error; } devdata->server_change_state = true; devdata->server_down_complete_func = complete_func; @@ -374,11 +375,12 @@ visornic_serverdown(struct visornic_devdata *devdata, } else if (devdata->server_change_state) { dev_dbg(&devdata->dev->device, "%s changing state\n", __func__); - spin_unlock_irqrestore(&devdata->priv_lock, flags); - return -EINVAL; + retval = -EINVAL; } + +unlock: spin_unlock_irqrestore(&devdata->priv_lock, flags); - return 0; + return retval; } /** -- 1.9.1 _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel