From: Ted Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: fix unbalanced mutex unlock
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 16:50:43 -0400
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On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 01:15:34AM +0200, Nicolas Kaiser wrote:
> 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 <nikai@nikai.net>

Nice catch, thanks!!  I've applied a fix to the ext4 patch queue.

     	    	      	   	   - Ted