From 472aba5f91fd6413c9c75e71366f133aa8c7f2f2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ben Chan Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 07:49:42 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] staging: gdm72xx: fix reference counting in gdm_wimax_event_init This patch fixes the commit "staging/gdm72xx: cleanup little at gdm_wimax_event_rcv" (8df858ea76b76dde9a39d4edd9aaded983582cfe), which mishandles the reference counting of wm_event. Signed-off-by: Ben Chan Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/staging/gdm72xx/gdm_wimax.c | 16 ++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/gdm72xx/gdm_wimax.c b/drivers/staging/gdm72xx/gdm_wimax.c index 0716efc1817d..6cb810701a3e 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/gdm72xx/gdm_wimax.c +++ b/drivers/staging/gdm72xx/gdm_wimax.c @@ -258,12 +258,16 @@ static int gdm_wimax_event_init(void) if (!wm_event.ref_cnt) { wm_event.sock = netlink_init(NETLINK_WIMAX, gdm_wimax_event_rcv); - if (wm_event.sock) - wm_event.ref_cnt++; - INIT_LIST_HEAD(&wm_event.evtq); - INIT_LIST_HEAD(&wm_event.freeq); - INIT_WORK(&wm_event.ws, __gdm_wimax_event_send); - spin_lock_init(&wm_event.evt_lock); + if (wm_event.sock) { + INIT_LIST_HEAD(&wm_event.evtq); + INIT_LIST_HEAD(&wm_event.freeq); + INIT_WORK(&wm_event.ws, __gdm_wimax_event_send); + spin_lock_init(&wm_event.evt_lock); + } + } + + if (wm_event.sock) { + wm_event.ref_cnt++; return 0; } -- 2.11.0