Re: [PATCH 1/2] staging: wilc1000: fix double unlock

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Fri Apr 29 2016 - 01:06:47 EST


On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 08:48:48PM +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> The semaphore was being released twice, once at the beginning of the
> thread and then again when the thread is about to close.
> The semaphore is acquired immediately after creating the thread so we
> should be releasing it when the thread ends.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip.mukherjee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/staging/wilc1000/linux_wlan.c | 1 -
> 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/wilc1000/linux_wlan.c b/drivers/staging/wilc1000/linux_wlan.c
> index a858552..5643a3d 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/wilc1000/linux_wlan.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/wilc1000/linux_wlan.c
> @@ -313,7 +313,6 @@ static int linux_wlan_txq_task(void *vp)
> vif = netdev_priv(dev);
> wl = vif->wilc;
>
> - up(&wl->txq_thread_started);
> while (1) {
> down(&wl->txq_event);
>

Doesn't apply to my tree at all :(