This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
pcmcia/vrc4171: Add missing spinlock init
to the 3.8-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
pcmcia-vrc4171-add-missing-spinlock-init.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.8 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 811af9723859884f2f771f3174f3ddedab7c53b5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jean Delvare <khali@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2012 22:00:50 +0100
Subject: pcmcia/vrc4171: Add missing spinlock init
From: Jean Delvare <khali@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit 811af9723859884f2f771f3174f3ddedab7c53b5 upstream.
It doesn't seem this spinlock was properly initialized. This bug was
introduced by commit 7a410e8d4d97457c8c381e2de9cdc7bd3306badc.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/pcmcia/vrc4171_card.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- a/drivers/pcmcia/vrc4171_card.c
+++ b/drivers/pcmcia/vrc4171_card.c
@@ -246,6 +246,7 @@ static int pccard_init(struct pcmcia_soc
socket = &vrc4171_sockets[slot];
socket->csc_irq = search_nonuse_irq();
socket->io_irq = search_nonuse_irq();
+ spin_lock_init(&socket->lock);
return 0;
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from khali@xxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.8/pcmcia-vrc4171-add-missing-spinlock-init.patch
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