From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dan Carpenter Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2011 05:59:20 +0000 Subject: [patch 2/2] [SCSI] target: unlock on error path in configfs Message-Id: <20110103055920.GV1886@bicker> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Nicholas A. Bellinger" Cc: James Bottomley , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org If the user wrote a wrong value to the file the it would lead to a dead lock eventually. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter diff --git a/drivers/target/target_core_configfs.c b/drivers/target/target_core_configfs.c index d7b977d..2764510 100644 --- a/drivers/target/target_core_configfs.c +++ b/drivers/target/target_core_configfs.c @@ -660,6 +660,7 @@ static ssize_t target_core_dev_store_attr_##_name( \ } \ ret = strict_strtoul(page, 0, &val); \ if (ret < 0) { \ + spin_unlock(&se_dev->se_dev_lock); \ printk(KERN_ERR "strict_strtoul() failed with" \ " ret: %d\n", ret); \ return -EINVAL; \