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From: Jose Alonso <joalonsof@gmail.com>
To: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] dell-laptop - using buffer without mutex_lock
Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2011 19:01:27 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1310162490.9760.5.camel@laptop> (raw)

Using buffer->output[1] without mutex_lock()

--- linux-3.0-rc6/drivers/platform/x86/dell-laptop.c.ORIG
2011-07-04 19:56:24.000000000 -0300
+++ linux-3.0-rc6/drivers/platform/x86/dell-laptop.c    2011-07-08
18:27:02.420791868 -0300
@@ -560,11 +560,11 @@
        else
                dell_send_request(buffer, 0, 1);

+       ret = buffer->output[1];
+
 out:
        release_buffer();
-       if (ret)
-               return ret;
-       return buffer->output[1];
+       return ret;
 }

 static const struct backlight_ops dell_ops = {



             reply	other threads:[~2011-07-08 22:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-08 22:01 Jose Alonso [this message]
2011-07-09 21:28 ` [PATCH] dell-laptop - using buffer without mutex_lock Greg Dietsche

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