linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 7/7] misc: intel-ish-client: add intel ishtp clients driver

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Date:   Tue, 3 Jan 2017 10:54:00 +0100 (CET)
From:   Jiri Kosina <jikos@...nel.org>
To:     Even Xu <even.xu@...el.com>
cc:     benjamin.tissoires@...hat.com, srinivas.pandruvada@...ux.intel.com,
        arnd@...db.de, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
        andriy.shevchenko@...el.com, linux-input@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7] misc: intel-ish-client: add intel ishtp clients
 driver

On Fri, 23 Dec 2016, Even Xu wrote:

[ ... snip ... ]
> +static ssize_t ishtp_cl_write(struct file *file, const char __user *ubuf,
> +	size_t length, loff_t *offset)
> +{
> +	struct ishtp_cl_miscdev *ishtp_cl_misc = file->private_data;
> +	struct ishtp_cl *cl;
> +	void *write_buf;
> +	struct ishtp_device *dev;
> +	int ret;
> +
> +	/* Non-blocking semantics are not supported */
> +	if (file->f_flags & O_NONBLOCK) {
> +		ret = -EINVAL;
> +		goto out_unlock;

When taking the error path here you'd try to unlock 
ishtp_cl_misc->cl_mutex before actually acquiring it.

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs