Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 19:37:45 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 19:37:34 -0500 Received: from draco.cus.cam.ac.uk ([131.111.8.18]:18146 "EHLO draco.cus.cam.ac.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 19:37:16 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] 2.5.1-pre3 fix error in drivers/block/rd.c To: torvalds@transmeta.com Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 00:37:15 +0000 (GMT) Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: From: Anton Altaparmakov Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Linus, I think someone made a very silly mistake which this patchlet fixes. Taking a spinlock and returning from a function before releasing it... Best regards, Anton -- Anton Altaparmakov (replace at with @) Linux NTFS maintainer / WWW: http://linux-ntfs.sf.net/ ICQ: 8561279 / WWW: http://www-stu.christs.cam.ac.uk/~aia21/ --- linux-2.5.1-pre3-vanilla/drivers/block/rd.c.old Thu Nov 29 00:34:17 2001 +++ linux-2.5.1-pre3-vanilla/drivers/block/rd.c Thu Nov 29 00:35:03 2001 @@ -437,9 +437,9 @@ #ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD if (unit == INITRD_MINOR) { + if (!initrd_start) return -ENODEV; spin_lock( &initrd_users_lock ); initrd_users++; - if (!initrd_start) return -ENODEV; spin_unlock( &initrd_users_lock ); filp->f_op = &initrd_fops; return 0; - 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/