From: Nicolas Kaiser Subject: [PATCH] ext4: fix unbalanced mutex unlock Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 01:15:34 +0200 Message-ID: <20101026011534.0bb7cb64@absol.kitzblitz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Andreas Dilger , linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: "Theodore Ts'o" Return-path: Received: from webhosting01.bon.m2soft.com ([195.38.20.32]:49074 "EHLO webhosting01.bon.m2soft.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757676Ab0JYXUd (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Oct 2010 19:20:33 -0400 Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Although the mutex isn't locked yet, if ext4_li_request_new fails, the mutex would get unlocked on the error path. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Kaiser --- fs/ext4/super.c | 6 ++---- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c index d0c3328..8bca022 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/super.c +++ b/fs/ext4/super.c @@ -2915,10 +2915,8 @@ static int ext4_register_li_request(struct super_block *sb, } elr = ext4_li_request_new(sb, first_not_zeroed); - if (!elr) { - ret = -ENOMEM; - goto out; - } + if (!elr) + return -ENOMEM; mutex_lock(&ext4_li_mtx); -- 1.7.2.2