The patch titled drivers/net/wireless/ipw2100.c: release mutex in error handling code has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is drivers-net-wireless-ipw2100c-release-mutex-in-error-handling-code.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: drivers/net/wireless/ipw2100.c: release mutex in error handling code 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> Cc: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: John W. Linville <linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: James Ketrenos <jketreno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/wireless/ipw2100.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN drivers/net/wireless/ipw2100.c~drivers-net-wireless-ipw2100c-release-mutex-in-error-handling-code drivers/net/wireless/ipw2100.c --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2100.c~drivers-net-wireless-ipw2100c-release-mutex-in-error-handling-code +++ a/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) { _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from julia@xxxxxxx are origin.patch linux-next.patch drivers-net-ehea-ehea_mainc-release-mutex-in-error-handling-code.patch net-ieee80211-adjust-error-handling.patch drivers-net-wireless-b43legacy-mainc-release-mutex-in-error-handling-code.patch drivers-net-wireless-ipw2100c-release-mutex-in-error-handling-code.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