On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 09:09:15AM +0100, walter harms wrote: > > > Am 21.11.2013 20:12, schrieb Andreas Platschek: > > Use tty_write_lock()/tty_write_unlock() consistently. > > > > This takes care of the following sparse warning: > > drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1169:17: warning: context imbalance in 'tty_write_message' - unexpected unlock > > > > Signed-off-by: Andreas Platschek <andi.platschek@xxxxxxxxx> > > --- > > drivers/tty/tty_io.c | 2 +- > > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > > > diff --git a/drivers/tty/tty_io.c b/drivers/tty/tty_io.c > > index 3a1a01a..13dca92 100644 > > --- a/drivers/tty/tty_io.c > > +++ b/drivers/tty/tty_io.c > > @@ -1165,7 +1165,7 @@ out: > > void tty_write_message(struct tty_struct *tty, char *msg) > > { > > if (tty) { > > - mutex_lock(&tty->atomic_write_lock); > > + tty_write_lock(tty,0); > > tty_lock(tty); > > if (tty->ops->write && !test_bit(TTY_CLOSING, &tty->flags)) { > > tty_unlock(tty); > > i am not an expert on this but you may need to replace that tty_unlock() with tty_write_unlock(). No. The original code is correct. regards, dan carpenter -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html