netdev - Re: [net-next 1/1] bna: PCI Probe Conf Lock Fix

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Message-Id: <20110921.204200.1913137093700457756.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 21 Sep 2011 20:42:00 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	rmody@...cade.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, dan.carpenter@...cle.com,
	adapter_linux_open_src_team@...-10-4.brocade.com
Subject: Re: [net-next 1/1] bna: PCI Probe Conf Lock Fix

From: Rasesh Mody <rmody@...cade.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 17:31:50 -0700

> If register_netdev() fails now, then we call mutex_unlock(&bnad->conf_mutex);
> on the error path, but it's already unlocked. So we acquire the lock in error
> path which will be later unlocked after the cleanup.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rasesh Mody <rmody@...cade.com>

Applied, but I had to add:

Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>

Please don't leave out bug reporter credit like this.
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