Re: [PATCH] e1000e: fix double release of mutex

[Jeff Kirsher]

On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 8:31 PM, David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 13:58:07 -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@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> If we're fixing a regression like this, you should make the
> patch against net-2.6, and this one is against net-next-2.6
>
> Please respin this for me, thanks Jeff.
> --
>

Doh! Sorry Dave.  My bad, respinning now.

-- 
Cheers,
Jeff
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