The patch titled ieee80211softmac: Fix mutex_lock at exit of ieee80211_softmac_get_genie has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is ieee80211softmac-fix-mutex_lock-at-exit-of-ieee80211_softmac_get_genie.patch See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: ieee80211softmac: Fix mutex_lock at exit of ieee80211_softmac_get_genie From: Ulrich Kunitz <kune@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ieee80211softmac_wx_get_genie locks the associnfo mutex at function exit. Signed-off-by: Ulrich Kunitz <kune@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Michael Buesch <mb@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> --- net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_wx.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_wx.c~ieee80211softmac-fix-mutex_lock-at-exit-of-ieee80211_softmac_get_genie net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_wx.c --- a/net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_wx.c~ieee80211softmac-fix-mutex_lock-at-exit-of-ieee80211_softmac_get_genie +++ a/net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_wx.c @@ -463,7 +463,7 @@ ieee80211softmac_wx_get_genie(struct net err = -E2BIG; } spin_unlock_irqrestore(&mac->lock, flags); - mutex_lock(&mac->associnfo.mutex); + mutex_unlock(&mac->associnfo.mutex); return err; } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from kune@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx are origin.patch ieee80211softmac-fix-errors-related-to-the-work_struct-changes.patch zd1211rw-call-ieee80211_rx-in-tasklet.patch ieee80211softmac-fix-mutex_lock-at-exit-of-ieee80211_softmac_get_genie.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