2.6.27-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Jeff Kirsher commit 30bb0e0dce78427f3e5cb728d6b5ea73acbefffa upstream. 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 Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/net/e1000e/ich8lan.c | 9 +++++++-- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/net/e1000e/ich8lan.c +++ b/drivers/net/e1000e/ich8lan.c @@ -1791,12 +1791,17 @@ static s32 e1000_reset_hw_ich8lan(struct ctrl |= E1000_CTRL_PHY_RST; } ret_val = e1000_acquire_swflag_ich8lan(hw); + /* Whether or not the swflag was acquired, we need to reset the part */ hw_dbg(hw, "Issuing a global reset to ich8lan"); ew32(CTRL, (ctrl | E1000_CTRL_RST)); msleep(20); - /* release the swflag because it is not reset by hardware reset */ - e1000_release_swflag_ich8lan(hw); + if (!ret_val) { + /* release the swflag because it is not reset by + * hardware reset + */ + e1000_release_swflag_ich8lan(hw); + } ret_val = e1000e_get_auto_rd_done(hw); if (ret_val) { -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/