From: Matthias Kaehlcke <matthias.kaehlcke@gmail.com>
To: davem@davemloft.net, wli@holomorphy.com, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] Videopix Frame Grabber: Fix unreleased lock in vfc_debug()
Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2007 17:16:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070701151610.GA3940@traven> (raw)
Videopix Frame Grabber: vfc_debug() doesn't release the device lock
when copy_from_user() fails
Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <matthias.kaehlcke@gmail.com>
---
diff --git a/drivers/sbus/char/vfc_dev.c b/drivers/sbus/char/vfc_dev.c
index 6afc7e5..1cbdabd 100644
--- a/drivers/sbus/char/vfc_dev.c
+++ b/drivers/sbus/char/vfc_dev.c
@@ -248,6 +248,7 @@ static int vfc_debug(struct vfc_dev *dev, int cmd, void __user *argp)
buffer,inout.len);
if (copy_to_user(argp,&inout,sizeof(inout))) {
+ vfc_unlock_device(dev);
kfree(buffer);
return -EFAULT;
}
--
Matthias Kaehlcke
Linux Application Developer
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