From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dan Carpenter Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2011 05:53:26 +0000 Subject: [patch] memory hotplug: release lock on an error path Message-Id: <20111005055326.GA32187@elgon.mountain> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Nathan Fontenot Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Greg Kroah-Hartman , kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org We need to release the mutex here before returning. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter diff --git a/drivers/base/memory.c b/drivers/base/memory.c index ca8bfe5..164c8a2 100644 --- a/drivers/base/memory.c +++ b/drivers/base/memory.c @@ -299,7 +299,7 @@ static int memory_block_change_state(struct memory_block *mem, for (i = 0; i < sections_per_block; i++) { ret = check_page_reservations(mem->start_section_nr + i); if (ret) - return ret; + goto out; } }