This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
media: dvb-core: Release semaphore on error path dvb_register_device()
to the 3.0-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:
media-dvb-core-release-semaphore-on-error-path-dvb_register_device.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.0 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From 82163edcdfa4eb3d74516cc8e9f38dd3d039b67d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Santosh Nayak <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2012 07:59:54 -0300
Subject: media: dvb-core: Release semaphore on error path dvb_register_device()
From: Santosh Nayak <[email protected]>
commit 82163edcdfa4eb3d74516cc8e9f38dd3d039b67d upstream.
There is a missing "up_write()" here. Semaphore should be released
before returning error value.
Signed-off-by: Santosh Nayak <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvbdev.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- a/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvbdev.c
+++ b/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvbdev.c
@@ -243,6 +243,7 @@ int dvb_register_device(struct dvb_adapt
if (minor == MAX_DVB_MINORS) {
kfree(dvbdevfops);
kfree(dvbdev);
+ up_write(&minor_rwsem);
mutex_unlock(&dvbdev_register_lock);
return -EINVAL;
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from
[email protected] are
queue-3.0/media-dvb-core-release-semaphore-on-error-path-dvb_register_device.patch
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