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From: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Cc: zippel@linux-m68k.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] AFFS fix return without releasing BKL
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 00:28:15 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D2D338F.109@us.ibm.com> (raw)

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Linus,
This was found by Dan Carpenter <error27@email.com>, using an smatch 
script.  Looks to me like like an error caused during all the BKL 
pushing.  1 more coming...

Not tested (Greg, please don't hurt me :p )
-- 
Dave Hansen
haveblue@us.ibm.com

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--- linux-2.5.25-clean/fs/affs/namei.c	Thu Jun 20 15:53:49 2002
+++ linux/fs/affs/namei.c	Thu Jul 11 00:15:16 2002
@@ -345,8 +345,10 @@
 	lock_kernel();
 
 	/* WTF??? */
-	if (!dentry->d_inode)
+	if (!dentry->d_inode) {
+		unlock_kernel();
 		return -ENOENT;
+	}
 
 	res = affs_remove_header(dentry);
 	unlock_kernel();

             reply	other threads:[~2002-07-11  7:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-07-11  7:28 Dave Hansen [this message]
2002-07-11 20:44 ` [PATCH] AFFS fix return without releasing BKL Roman Zippel
2002-07-12 19:06   ` Dave Hansen

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