[PATCH 1/1] Wireless: nl80211, fix lock imbalance

From: Jiri Slaby
Date: Sat Jun 20 2009 - 06:31:31 EST


Don't forget to unlock cfg80211_mutex in one fail path of
nl80211_set_wiphy.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@xxxxxxxxx>
---
net/wireless/nl80211.c | 1 +
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/wireless/nl80211.c b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
index 2416856..a62a190 100644
--- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c
+++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
@@ -447,6 +447,7 @@ static int nl80211_set_wiphy(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)

rdev = __cfg80211_drv_from_info(info);
if (IS_ERR(rdev)) {
+ mutex_unlock(&cfg80211_mutex);
result = PTR_ERR(rdev);
goto unlock;
}
--
1.6.3.2

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