Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932065AbWAEPZO (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jan 2006 10:25:14 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932067AbWAEPZO (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jan 2006 10:25:14 -0500 Received: from eremit.is-kassel.org ([212.202.104.39]:13071 "EHLO eremit.is-kassel.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932065AbWAEPZM (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jan 2006 10:25:12 -0500 Message-ID: <43BD3AB7.9020003@is-kassel.org> Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 16:26:47 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?j=FCrgen_baumann?= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050716) X-Accept-Language: de-DE, de, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: 2.4.33pre1 kernel/sysctl.c missing spin_unlock() Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 594 Lines: 15 possibly fixed yet, but maybe not: in above patch there was a spinlock(&sysctl_lock) added in function do_register_sysctl_table(), but no corresponding spin_unlock() before return. after starting the new kernel (unfortunately with further patches), it hangs on trying to start the kswapd-thread. after inserting the spin_unlock() all run fine. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/