From: Dan Carpenter Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2017 22:23:47 +0000 (-0700) Subject: test_kmod: fix the lock in register_test_dev_kmod() X-Git-Tag: v4.13-rc5~18^2~15 X-Git-Url: https://git.kernelconcepts.de/?p=karo-tx-linux.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=9c56771316ef50992ada284b4c01b03842b2660d test_kmod: fix the lock in register_test_dev_kmod() We accidentally just drop the lock twice instead of taking it and then releasing it. This isn't a big issue unless you are adding more than one device to test on, and the kmod.sh doesn't do that yet, however this obviously is the correct thing to do. [mcgrof@kernel.org: massaged subject, explain what happens] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170802211450.27928-5-mcgrof@kernel.org Fixes: 39258f448d71 ("kmod: add test driver to stress test the module loader") Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez Cc: Colin Ian King Cc: David Binderman Cc: Dmitry Torokhov Cc: Eric W. Biederman Cc: Jessica Yu Cc: Josh Poimboeuf Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Michal Marek Cc: Miroslav Benes Cc: Petr Mladek Cc: Rusty Russell Cc: Shuah Khan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/lib/test_kmod.c b/lib/test_kmod.c index 8fc0a7a19c83..1bc06bbfc97a 100644 --- a/lib/test_kmod.c +++ b/lib/test_kmod.c @@ -1146,7 +1146,7 @@ static struct kmod_test_device *register_test_dev_kmod(void) struct kmod_test_device *test_dev = NULL; int ret; - mutex_unlock(®_dev_mutex); + mutex_lock(®_dev_mutex); /* int should suffice for number of devices, test for wrap */ if (unlikely(num_test_devs + 1) < 0) {