Re: [PATCH] fb_mmap() holding BKL

[Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>]

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Paul Mundt wrote:
> Just a minor cleanup.. in the event of some sanity checking in fb_mmap(), the
> BKL is accidentally held on a return.. this trivial patch fixes this issue.

No idea why your patch didn't apply here, but it didn't.

Attached is the same fix patch, rediff'd against 2.4.15-pre4.

	Jeff


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Index: drivers/video/fbmem.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/gkernel/linux_2_4/drivers/video/fbmem.c,v
retrieving revision 1.4
diff -u -r1.4 fbmem.c
--- drivers/video/fbmem.c	2001/10/11 09:39:14	1.4
+++ drivers/video/fbmem.c	2001/11/14 23:31:44
@@ -563,8 +563,10 @@
 		/* memory mapped io */
 		off -= len;
 		fb->fb_get_var(&var, PROC_CONSOLE(info), info);
-		if (var.accel_flags)
+		if (var.accel_flags) {
+			unlock_kernel();
 			return -EINVAL;
+		}
 		start = fix.mmio_start;
 		len = PAGE_ALIGN((start & ~PAGE_MASK)+fix.mmio_len);
 	}