Re: Oops with 2.6.24 git when loading iwl3945

From: Cyrill Gorcunov
Date: Sun Dec 02 2007 - 11:43:42 EST


[Thomas Tuttle - Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 03:43:57PM -0500]
| Hey.
|
| I'm using a git snapshot that gentoo distributed mere hours ago (so I'm
| fairly confident it's current), and I'm getting an Oops when I try to
| load the iwl3945 driver. I've attached it as plain text.
|
| Hope this helps,
|
| Thomas Tuttle

Hi Thomas,
Could you please test the patch?

Cyrill
---

Seems just mutex unlock is missed ;)

net/mac80211/ieee80211_rate.c | 1 +
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/mac80211/ieee80211_rate.c b/net/mac80211/ieee80211_rate.c
index 7254bd6..3260a4a 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/ieee80211_rate.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/ieee80211_rate.c
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ int ieee80211_rate_control_register(struct rate_control_ops *ops)
if (!strcmp(alg->ops->name, ops->name)) {
/* don't register an algorithm twice */
WARN_ON(1);
+ mutex_unlock(&rate_ctrl_mutex);
return -EALREADY;
}
}
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