The patch titled rtc: fix idr locking has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is rtc-fix-idr-locking.patch See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: rtc: fix idr locking From: Sonny Rao <sonny@xxxxxxxxxxx> We need to serialize access to the global rtc_idr even in this error path. Signed-off-by: Sonny Rao <sonny@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> --- drivers/rtc/class.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff -puN drivers/rtc/class.c~rtc-fix-idr-locking drivers/rtc/class.c --- a/drivers/rtc/class.c~rtc-fix-idr-locking +++ a/drivers/rtc/class.c @@ -93,7 +93,9 @@ exit_kfree: kfree(rtc); exit_idr: + mutex_lock(&idr_lock); idr_remove(&rtc_idr, id); + mutex_unlock(&idr_lock); exit: dev_err(dev, "rtc core: unable to register %s, err = %d\n", _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from sonny@xxxxxxxxxxx are origin.patch rtc-fix-idr-locking.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html