In ehea_probe_adapter() the initial memory allocation and initialisation does
not need to be done with the ehea_fw_handles.lock semaphore held.  Doing so
extends the amount of time the lock is held unnecessarily.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowe...@redhat.com>
---

 drivers/net/ehea/ehea_main.c |   13 ++++++-------
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)


diff --git a/drivers/net/ehea/ehea_main.c b/drivers/net/ehea/ehea_main.c
index dfe9226..34480ae 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ehea/ehea_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ehea/ehea_main.c
@@ -3370,18 +3370,19 @@ static int __devinit ehea_probe_adapter(struct 
of_device *dev,
                ehea_error("Invalid ibmebus device probed");
                return -EINVAL;
        }
-       mutex_lock(&ehea_fw_handles.lock);
 
        adapter = kzalloc(sizeof(*adapter), GFP_KERNEL);
        if (!adapter) {
-               ret = -ENOMEM;
                dev_err(&dev->dev, "no mem for ehea_adapter\n");
-               goto out;
+               return -ENOMEM;
        }
 
-       list_add(&adapter->list, &adapter_list);
-
        adapter->ofdev = dev;
+       adapter->pd = EHEA_PD_ID;
+
+       mutex_lock(&ehea_fw_handles.lock);
+
+       list_add(&adapter->list, &adapter_list);
 
        adapter_handle = of_get_property(dev->node, "ibm,hea-handle",
                                         NULL);
@@ -3395,8 +3396,6 @@ static int __devinit ehea_probe_adapter(struct of_device 
*dev,
                goto out_free_ad;
        }
 
-       adapter->pd = EHEA_PD_ID;
-
        dev->dev.driver_data = adapter;
 
 

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