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From: <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: dan.carpenter@oracle.com, andrewx.bowers@intel.com,
	gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>, <stable-commits@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Patch "i40e: remove a stray unlock" has been added to the 4.8-stable tree
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2016 13:42:36 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <147767655634199@kroah.com> (raw)


This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    i40e: remove a stray unlock

to the 4.8-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     i40e-remove-a-stray-unlock.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.8 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From be0cb0a66a1d426f7cd9b170c008725044ae147a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2016 22:01:07 +0300
Subject: i40e: remove a stray unlock

From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>

commit be0cb0a66a1d426f7cd9b170c008725044ae147a upstream.

We shifted the locking around a bit but forgot to delete this unlock so
now it can unlock twice.

Fixes: cd3be169a5ff ('i40e: Move the mutex lock in i40e_client_unregister')
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Tested-by: Andrew Bowers <andrewx.bowers@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_client.c |    1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_client.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_client.c
@@ -1009,7 +1009,6 @@ int i40e_unregister_client(struct i40e_c
 	if (!i40e_client_is_registered(client)) {
 		pr_info("i40e: Client %s has not been registered\n",
 			client->name);
-		mutex_unlock(&i40e_client_mutex);
 		ret = -ENODEV;
 		goto out;
 	}


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dan.carpenter@oracle.com are

queue-4.8/i40e-remove-a-stray-unlock.patch

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