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* [PATCH] dell-laptop - using buffer without mutex_lock
@ 2011-07-08 22:01 Jose Alonso
  2011-07-09 21:28 ` Greg Dietsche
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Jose Alonso @ 2011-07-08 22:01 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Matthew Garrett; +Cc: linux-kernel

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 = {



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* Re: [PATCH] dell-laptop - using buffer without mutex_lock
  2011-07-08 22:01 [PATCH] dell-laptop - using buffer without mutex_lock Jose Alonso
@ 2011-07-09 21:28 ` Greg Dietsche
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Greg Dietsche @ 2011-07-09 21:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Jose Alonso; +Cc: Matthew Garrett, linux-kernel

Hi Jose,

On Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 07:01:27PM -0300, Jose Alonso wrote:
> 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 = {
> 
> 
> --

You should run this patch through scripts/checkpatch.pl as it
reports a few style issues for your patch including a missing
signed-off-by line and some spaces that should be converted to tabs.

Greg


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