From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] e1000e: fix double release of mutex
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 21:28:28 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081211.212828.49279391.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081212052025.3298.151.stgit@lost.foo-projects.org>
From: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 21:20:26 -0800
> During a reset, releasing the swflag after it failed to be acquired would
> cause a double unlock of the mutex. Instead, test whether acquisition of
> the swflag was successful and if not, do not release the swflag. The reset
> must still be done to bring the device to a quiescent state.
>
> This resolves [BUG 12200] BUG: bad unlock balance detected! e1000e
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12200
>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Applied, thanks for respinning this.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-12 5:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-12 5:20 [PATCH] e1000e: fix double release of mutex Jeff Kirsher
2008-12-12 5:24 ` Jeff Kirsher
2008-12-12 5:28 ` David Miller [this message]
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2008-12-11 21:58 Jeff Kirsher
2008-12-12 4:31 ` David Miller
2008-12-12 4:51 ` Jeff Kirsher
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