From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 06:04:14 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: USB: auerswald: fix file release handler
X-Git-Url: http://drtracing.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=be23edf848b14d1b426c12f2f58e4949c4fbd695;p=deliverable%2Flinux.git

USB: auerswald: fix file release handler

If this down_interruptible() does fail due to signal_pending() then the state
of the driver will get trashed in interesting ways, because userspace cannot
and will not retry the close().

Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
---

diff --git a/drivers/usb/misc/auerswald.c b/drivers/usb/misc/auerswald.c
index 88fb56d5db8f..cac1500cba62 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/misc/auerswald.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/misc/auerswald.c
@@ -1822,16 +1822,10 @@ static int auerchar_release (struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
 	pauerswald_t cp;
 	dbg("release");
 
-	/* get the mutexes */
-	if (down_interruptible (&ccp->mutex)) {
-		return -ERESTARTSYS;
-	}
+	down(&ccp->mutex);
 	cp = ccp->auerdev;
 	if (cp) {
-		if (down_interruptible (&cp->mutex)) {
-			up (&ccp->mutex);
-			return -ERESTARTSYS;
-		}
+		down(&cp->mutex);
 		/* remove an open service */
 		auerswald_removeservice (cp, &ccp->scontext);
 		/* detach from device */