netdev - RE: bna: PCI Probe Fix

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Message-ID: <E5313AF6F2BFD14293E5FD0F94750F86AC9B6D8FB5@HQ1-EXCH01.corp.brocade.com>
Date:	Wed, 21 Sep 2011 17:32:33 -0700
From:	Rasesh Mody <rmody@...cade.com>
To:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
CC:	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: bna: PCI Probe Fix

>From: Dan Carpenter [mailto:dan.carpenter@...cle.com]
>Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2011 1:47 AM
>
>There is a problem introduced in 0caa9aaec5 "bna: PCI Probe Fix".
>
>If register_netdev() fails now, then we call mutex_unlock(&bnad-
>>conf_mutex);
>on the error path, but it's already unlocked.

Thanks Dan!

Sent a fix so that we acquire the lock in error path which will be later unlocked after the cleanup.

Regards,
Rasesh
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