The patch titled usb-skeleton leaking locks on open has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was usb-skeleton-leaking-locks-on-open.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: usb-skeleton leaking locks on open From: Mark Gross <mgross@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> The code path through skel_open can grap the driver's io_mutex lock and forget to release it. Signed-off-by: Mark Gross <mgross@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/usb/usb-skeleton.c | 1 + 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+) diff -puN drivers/usb/usb-skeleton.c~usb-skeleton-leaking-locks-on-open drivers/usb/usb-skeleton.c --- a/drivers/usb/usb-skeleton.c~usb-skeleton-leaking-locks-on-open +++ a/drivers/usb/usb-skeleton.c @@ -125,6 +125,7 @@ static int skel_open(struct inode *inode /* save our object in the file's private structure */ file->private_data = dev; + mutex_unlock(&dev->io_mutex); exit: return retval; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from mgross@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are - 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