Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Wed, 14 Nov 2001 18:32:30 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] fb_mmap() holding BKL |
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Paul Mundt wrote: > Just a minor cleanup.. in the event of some sanity checking in fb_mmap(), the > BKL is accidentally held on a return.. this trivial patch fixes this issue.
No idea why your patch didn't apply here, but it didn't.
Attached is the same fix patch, rediff'd against 2.4.15-pre4.
Jeff
-- Jeff Garzik | Only so many songs can be sung Building 1024 | with two lips, two lungs, and one tongue. MandrakeSoft | - nomeansnoIndex: drivers/video/fbmem.c =================================================================== RCS file: /cvsroot/gkernel/linux_2_4/drivers/video/fbmem.c,v retrieving revision 1.4 diff -u -r1.4 fbmem.c --- drivers/video/fbmem.c 2001/10/11 09:39:14 1.4 +++ drivers/video/fbmem.c 2001/11/14 23:31:44 @@ -563,8 +563,10 @@ /* memory mapped io */ off -= len; fb->fb_get_var(&var, PROC_CONSOLE(info), info); - if (var.accel_flags) + if (var.accel_flags) { + unlock_kernel(); return -EINVAL; + } start = fix.mmio_start; len = PAGE_ALIGN((start & ~PAGE_MASK)+fix.mmio_len); } | |