In the original code, we set "fd->uctxt" to NULL and then dereference it which will cause an Oops. Fixes: f2a3bc00a03c ("IB/hfi1: Protect context array set/clear with spinlock") Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> --- v2: In v1, I accidentally moved the __clear_bit() out from under the spin_lock(). Thanks for the review, Michael! diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/hfi1/file_ops.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/hfi1/file_ops.c index 82086241aac3..bd6f03cc5ee0 100644 --- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/hfi1/file_ops.c +++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/hfi1/file_ops.c @@ -763,11 +763,11 @@ static int complete_subctxt(struct hfi1_filedata *fd) } if (ret) { - hfi1_rcd_put(fd->uctxt); - fd->uctxt = NULL; spin_lock_irqsave(&fd->dd->uctxt_lock, flags); __clear_bit(fd->subctxt, fd->uctxt->in_use_ctxts); spin_unlock_irqrestore(&fd->dd->uctxt_lock, flags); + hfi1_rcd_put(fd->uctxt); + fd->uctxt = NULL; } return ret; -- 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