[PATCH] [RESENDING] dell-laptop - using buffer without mutex_lock
From: Jose Alonso
Date: Sun Jul 10 2011 - 14:47:04 EST
(resending patch with tabs and signed-off-by)
Using buffer->output[1] without mutex_lock()
Signed-off-by: Jose Alonso <joalonsof@xxxxxxxxx>
version linux-3.0-rc6
--
--- a/drivers/platform/x86/dell-laptop.c
+++ b/drivers/platform/x86/dell-laptop.c
@@ -560,11 +560,11 @@
else
dell_send_request(buffer, 0, 1);
+ ret = buffer->output[1];
+
out:
release_buffer();
- if (ret)
- return ret;
- return buffer->output[1];
+ return ret;
}
static const struct backlight_ops dell_ops = {
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