From: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx> The mutex is released on a successful return, so it would seem that it should be released on an error return as well. The semantic patch finds this problem is as follows: (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/) // <smpl> @@ expression l; @@ mutex_lock(l); ... when != mutex_unlock(l) when any when strict ( if (...) { ... when != mutex_unlock(l) + mutex_unlock(l); return ...; } | mutex_unlock(l); ) // </smpl> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx> --- diff -u -p a/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2100.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2100.c --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2100.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2100.c @@ -6442,6 +6442,7 @@ static int ipw2100_resume(struct pci_dev if (err) { printk(KERN_ERR "%s: pci_enable_device failed on resume\n", dev->name); + mutex_unlock(&priv->action_mutex); return err; } pci_restore_state(pci_dev); @@ -7146,7 +7147,7 @@ static int ipw2100_wx_get_rate(struct ne err = ipw2100_get_ordinal(priv, IPW_ORD_CURRENT_TX_RATE, &val, &len); if (err) { IPW_DEBUG_WX("failed querying ordinals.\n"); - return err; + goto done; } switch (val & TX_RATE_MASK) { -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html