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From: "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@novell.com>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] fix SAL info mutex handling
Date: Tue, 05 May 2009 12:53:13 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A0052D9.76EA.0078.0@novell.com> (raw)

Using up() on a mutex that wasn't necessarily acquired seems wrong.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>

---
 arch/ia64/kernel/salinfo.c |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- linux-2.6.30-rc4/arch/ia64/kernel/salinfo.c	2009-04-30 09:42:36.000000000 +0200
+++ 2.6.30-rc4-ia64-salinfo-lock/arch/ia64/kernel/salinfo.c	2009-05-04 11:31:45.000000000 +0200
@@ -192,8 +192,8 @@ struct salinfo_platform_oemdata_parms {
 static void
 salinfo_work_to_do(struct salinfo_data *data)
 {
-	down_trylock(&data->mutex);
-	up(&data->mutex);
+	if (down_trylock(&data->mutex) = 0)
+		up(&data->mutex);
 }
 
 static void




             reply	other threads:[~2009-05-05 12:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-05 12:53 Jan Beulich [this message]
2009-05-05 13:17 ` [PATCH] fix SAL info mutex handling Matthew Wilcox

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