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Re: [PATCH] irda: Fix RCU lock pairing on error path

To: josht@vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] irda: Fix RCU lock pairing on error path
From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 12:48:12 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, paulmck@us.ibm.com, dipankar@in.ibm.com, akpm@osdl.org, samuel@sortiz.org
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From: Josh Triplett <josht@vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 17:56:41 -0700

> irlan_client_discovery_indication calls rcu_read_lock and rcu_read_unlock, but
> returns without unlocking in an error case.  Fix that by replacing the return
> with a goto so that the rcu_read_unlock always gets executed.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org>

Applied, thanks a lot.
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