[PATCH 13/28] staging: most: move mutex

Christian Gromm christian.gromm at microchip.com
Tue Dec 22 09:52:54 UTC 2015


This patch removes mutex from code that doesn't need any locking.

Signed-off-by: Christian Gromm <christian.gromm at microchip.com>
---
This patch has been resent on behalf of Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>

 drivers/staging/most/mostcore/core.c |    3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/most/mostcore/core.c b/drivers/staging/most/mostcore/core.c
index 21c550c..ae1b577 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/most/mostcore/core.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/most/mostcore/core.c
@@ -1830,15 +1830,14 @@ void most_deregister_interface(struct most_interface *iface)
 	struct most_inst_obj *i = iface->priv;
 	struct most_c_obj *c;
 
-	mutex_lock(&deregister_mutex);
 	if (unlikely(!i)) {
 		pr_info("Bad Interface\n");
-		mutex_unlock(&deregister_mutex);
 		return;
 	}
 	pr_info("deregistering MOST device %s (%s)\n", i->kobj.name,
 		iface->description);
 
+	mutex_lock(&deregister_mutex);
 	atomic_set(&i->tainted, 1);
 	mutex_unlock(&deregister_mutex);
 
-- 
1.7.9.5



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