From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932352AbWF2TsO (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Jun 2006 15:48:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932353AbWF2TsO (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Jun 2006 15:48:14 -0400 Received: from dsl027-180-168.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([216.27.180.168]:27115 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932352AbWF2TsN (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Jun 2006 15:48:13 -0400 Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 12:48:12 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20060629.124812.90122373.davem@davemloft.net> To: josht@vnet.ibm.com Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, paulmck@us.ibm.com, dipankar@in.ibm.com, akpm@osdl.org, samuel@sortiz.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] irda: Fix RCU lock pairing on error path From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <1151542602.18723.19.camel@josh-work.beaverton.ibm.com> References: <1151542602.18723.19.camel@josh-work.beaverton.ibm.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 4.2 on Emacs 21.4 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Josh Triplett Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 17:56:41 -0700 > irlan_client_discovery_indication calls rcu_read_lock and rcu_read_unlock, but > returns without unlocking in an error case. Fix that by replacing the return > with a goto so that the rcu_read_unlock always gets executed. > > Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett Applied, thanks a lot.