The patch titled
wireless: nl80211, fix lock imbalance
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wireless-nl80211-fix-lock-imbalance.patch
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Subject: wireless: nl80211, fix lock imbalance
From: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@xxxxxxxxx>
Don't forget to unlock cfg80211_mutex in one fail path of
nl80211_set_wiphy().
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/wireless/nl80211.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff -puN net/wireless/nl80211.c~wireless-nl80211-fix-lock-imbalance net/wireless/nl80211.c
--- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c~wireless-nl80211-fix-lock-imbalance
+++ a/net/wireless/nl80211.c
@@ -447,6 +447,7 @@ static int nl80211_set_wiphy(struct sk_b
rdev = __cfg80211_drv_from_info(info);
if (IS_ERR(rdev)) {
+ mutex_unlock(&cfg80211_mutex);
result = PTR_ERR(rdev);
goto unlock;
}
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from jirislaby@xxxxxxxxx are
origin.patch
floppy-fix-lock-imbalance.patch
linux-next.patch
icom-converting-space-to-tabs.patch
wireless-nl80211-fix-lock-imbalance.patch
reiser4.patch
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