From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753618Ab2GWBnr (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Jul 2012 21:43:47 -0400 Received: from shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk ([88.96.1.126]:54460 "EHLO shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753598Ab2GWBnn (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Jul 2012 21:43:43 -0400 Message-Id: <20120723010656.515264174@decadent.org.uk> User-Agent: quilt/0.60-1 Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 02:07:24 +0100 From: Ben Hutchings To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, Santosh Nayak , Mauro Carvalho Chehab Subject: [ 033/108] [media] dvb-core: Release semaphore on error path dvb_register_device() In-Reply-To: <20120723010651.408577075@decadent.org.uk> X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 2001:470:1f08:1539:21c:bfff:fe03:f805 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ben@decadent.org.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on shadbolt.decadent.org.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 3.2-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Santosh Nayak commit 82163edcdfa4eb3d74516cc8e9f38dd3d039b67d upstream. There is a missing "up_write()" here. Semaphore should be released before returning error value. Signed-off-by: Santosh Nayak Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings --- drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvbdev.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvbdev.c b/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvbdev.c index 00a6732..39eab73 100644 --- a/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvbdev.c +++ b/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvbdev.c @@ -243,6 +243,7 @@ int dvb_register_device(struct dvb_adapter *adap, struct dvb_device **pdvbdev, if (minor == MAX_DVB_MINORS) { kfree(dvbdevfops); kfree(dvbdev); + up_write(&minor_rwsem); mutex_unlock(&dvbdev_register_lock); return -EINVAL; }