[PATCH] ath10k: add missing mutex unlock on failpath

Michal Kazior michal.kazior at tieto.com
Wed Aug 19 04:08:53 PDT 2015


Kernel would complain about leaving a held lock
after going back to userspace and would
subsequently deadlock.

Fixes: e04cafbc38c7 ("ath10k: fix peer limit enforcement")
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Kazior <michal.kazior at tieto.com>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/mac.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/mac.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/mac.c
index 9bca37820848..64674c955d44 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/mac.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/mac.c
@@ -4144,7 +4144,8 @@ static int ath10k_add_interface(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
 
 	if (ar->num_peers >= ar->max_num_peers) {
 		ath10k_warn(ar, "refusing vdev creation due to insufficient peer entry resources in firmware\n");
-		return -ENOBUFS;
+		ret = -ENOBUFS;
+		goto err;
 	}
 
 	if (ar->free_vdev_map == 0) {
-- 
2.1.4




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