netdev - [PATCH] softmac: Fix missing mutex unlock

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Date:	Sun, 10 Dec 2006 15:40:16 -0600
From:	Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>
To:	John Linville <linville@...driver.com>
Cc:	Michael Buesch <mb@...sch.de>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Bcm43xx-dev@...ts.berlios.de, Stefano Brivio <st3@...eup.net>
Subject: [PATCH] softmac: Fix missing mutex unlock

From: Ulrich Kunitz <kune@...ne-taler.de>

ieee80211softmac_wx_get_genie locks the associnfo mutex at
function exit. This patch fixes it. The patch is against Linus'
tree (commit af1713e0).

Signed-off-by: Ulrich Kunitz <kune@...ne-taler.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@...sch.de>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>
---
 net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_wx.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

John,

This patch should be applied to wireless-2.6, pushed upstream to 2.6.20.
It will also be sent to -stable.

Larry


diff --git a/net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_wx.c b/net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_wx.c
index 480d72c..fa2f7da 100644
--- a/net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_wx.c
+++ b/net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_wx.c
@@ -463,7 +463,7 @@ ieee80211softmac_wx_get_genie(struct net
 			err = -E2BIG;
 	}
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&mac->lock, flags);
-	mutex_lock(&mac->associnfo.mutex);
+	mutex_unlock(&mac->associnfo.mutex);
 
 	return err;
 }

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