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* [PATCH] [RESENDING] dell-laptop - using buffer without mutex_lock
@ 2011-07-10 18:46 Jose Alonso
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From: Jose Alonso @ 2011-07-10 18:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Matthew Garrett; +Cc: Greg Dietsche, linux-kernel

(resending patch with tabs and signed-off-by)

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

Signed-off-by: Jose Alonso <joalonsof@gmail.com>
version linux-3.0-rc6
--
--- a/drivers/platform/x86/dell-laptop.c
+++ b/drivers/platform/x86/dell-laptop.c
@@ -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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