Re: [PATCH] bttv: fix mutex use before init

From: Torsten Kaiser
Date: Wed Dec 15 2010 - 01:47:42 EST


On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 10:43 PM, Brandon Philips <brandon@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 21:56 Tue 14 Dec 2010, Torsten Kaiser wrote:
>> On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 1:30 AM, Brandon Philips <brandon@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > On 17:13 Sun 12 Dec 2010, Torsten Kaiser wrote:
>> >>  * change &fh->cap.vb_lock in bttv_open() AND radio_open() to
>> >> &btv->init.cap.vb_lock
>> >>  * add a mutex_init(&btv->init.cap.vb_lock) to the setup of init in bttv_probe()
>> >
>> > That seems like a reasonable suggestion. An openSUSE user submitted this
>> > bug to our tracker too. Here is the patch I am having him test.
>> >
>> > Would you mind testing it?
>>
>> No. :-)
>>
>> Without this patch (==vanilla 2.6.37-rc5) I got 2 more OOPSe by
>> restarting hal around 20 times.
>> After applying this patch, I did not see a single OOPS after 100 restarts.
>> So it looks like the fix is correct.
>
> Dave, Torsten- Great thanks for testing, can I get both you and Dave's
> Tested-by then?

Tested-by: Torsten Kaiser <just.for.lkml@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks for providing this patch.

Torsten
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