[tip:urgent] fix USB serial fix kfifo_len locking

[Stefani Seibold]

This patch fix a possible race bug in drivers/usb/serial/generic with
the new kfifo API.

Please apply it to the 2.6.33-rc* tree.

Signed-off-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 generic.c |    8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- linux-2.6.33-rc2.orig/drivers/usb/serial/generic.c	2009-12-27 23:37:03.566060210 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.33-rc2.new/drivers/usb/serial/generic.c	2010-01-04 20:15:38.023351711 +0100
@@ -386,12 +386,12 @@ int usb_serial_generic_chars_in_buffer(s
 
 	dbg("%s - port %d", __func__, port->number);
 
-	if (serial->type->max_in_flight_urbs) {
-		spin_lock_irqsave(&port->lock, flags);
+	spin_lock_irqsave(&port->lock, flags);
+	if (serial->type->max_in_flight_urbs)
 		chars = port->tx_bytes_flight;
-		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&port->lock, flags);
-	} else if (serial->num_bulk_out)
+	else if (serial->num_bulk_out)
 		chars = kfifo_len(&port->write_fifo);
+	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&port->lock, flags);
 
 	dbg("%s - returns %d", __func__, chars);
 	return chars;


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