Patch "media: rc: unlock on error in show_protocols()" has been added to the 3.8-stable tree

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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    media: rc: unlock on error in show_protocols()

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:
     media-rc-unlock-on-error-in-show_protocols.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 30ebc5e44d057a1619ad63fe32c8c1670c37c4b8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 13:35:09 -0300
Subject: media: rc: unlock on error in show_protocols()

From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>

commit 30ebc5e44d057a1619ad63fe32c8c1670c37c4b8 upstream.

We recently introduced a new return -ENODEV in this function but we need
to unlock before returning.

[mchehab@xxxxxxxxxx: found two patches with the same fix. Merged SOB's/acks into one patch]
Acked-by: Herton R. Krzesinski <herton.krzesinski@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Douglas Bagnall <douglas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
 drivers/media/rc/rc-main.c |    4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/media/rc/rc-main.c
+++ b/drivers/media/rc/rc-main.c
@@ -789,8 +789,10 @@ static ssize_t show_protocols(struct dev
 	} else if (dev->raw) {
 		enabled = dev->raw->enabled_protocols;
 		allowed = ir_raw_get_allowed_protocols();
-	} else
+	} else {
+		mutex_unlock(&dev->lock);
 		return -ENODEV;
+	}
 
 	IR_dprintk(1, "allowed - 0x%llx, enabled - 0x%llx\n",
 		   (long long)allowed,


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx are

queue-3.8/media-rc-unlock-on-error-in-show_protocols.patch
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