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Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 20:51:37 -0800 From: "Jeff Kirsher" <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com> To: "David Miller" <davem@...emloft.net> Cc: akpm@...ux-foundation.org, frederik.deweerdt@...og.eu, e1000-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org, jesse.brandeburg@...el.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...nel.org, tglx@...utronix.de, zdenek.kabelac@...il.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] e1000e: fix double release of mutex On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 8:31 PM, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote: > From: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com> > 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@...el.com> > > 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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