[S390] extmem unbalanced spin_lock.

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From: Heiko Carstens <[email protected]>

[S390] extmem unbalanced spin_lock.

segment save will exit with a lock held if the passed segment doesn't
exist. Any subsequent call to segment_save will lead to a deadlock.
Fix this and give up the lock before returning.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <[email protected]>
---

 arch/s390/mm/extmem.c |    5 +++--
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff -urpN linux-2.6/arch/s390/mm/extmem.c linux-2.6-patched/arch/s390/mm/extmem.c
--- linux-2.6/arch/s390/mm/extmem.c	2006-11-29 22:57:37.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6-patched/arch/s390/mm/extmem.c	2006-12-04 14:50:45.000000000 +0100
@@ -563,8 +563,9 @@ segment_save(char *name)
 	seg = segment_by_name (name);
 
 	if (seg == NULL) {
-		PRINT_ERR ("could not find segment %s in segment_save, please report to [email protected]\n",name);
-		return;
+		PRINT_ERR("could not find segment %s in segment_save, please "
+			  "report to [email protected]\n", name);
+		goto out;
 	}
 
 	startpfn = seg->start_addr >> PAGE_SHIFT;
-
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