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Message-ID: <20070701151610.GA3940@traven>
Date:	Sun, 1 Jul 2007 17:16:10 +0200
From:	Matthias Kaehlcke <matthias.kaehlcke@...il.com>
To:	davem@...emloft.net, wli@...omorphy.com, sparclinux@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] Videopix Frame Grabber: Fix unreleased lock in vfc_debug()

Videopix Frame Grabber: vfc_debug() doesn't release the device lock
when copy_from_user() fails

Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <matthias.kaehlcke@...il.com>

---

diff --git a/drivers/sbus/char/vfc_dev.c b/drivers/sbus/char/vfc_dev.c
index 6afc7e5..1cbdabd 100644
--- a/drivers/sbus/char/vfc_dev.c
+++ b/drivers/sbus/char/vfc_dev.c
@@ -248,6 +248,7 @@ static int vfc_debug(struct vfc_dev *dev, int cmd, void __user *argp)
 					buffer,inout.len);
 
 		if (copy_to_user(argp,&inout,sizeof(inout))) {
+			vfc_unlock_device(dev);
 			kfree(buffer);
 			return -EFAULT;
 		}
 
-- 
Matthias Kaehlcke
Linux Application Developer
Barcelona


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