From: Zefan Li Subject: [PATCH] cgroup: fix missing unlock in cgroup_release_agent() Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2014 14:35:43 +0800 Message-ID: <541D203F.4020902@huawei.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Sender: cgroups-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Tejun Heo Cc: Cgroups , LKML , Dan Carpenter The patch 971ff4935538: "cgroup: use a per-cgroup work for release agent" from Sep 18, 2014, leads to the following static checker warning: kernel/cgroup.c:5310 cgroup_release_agent() warn: 'mutex:&cgroup_mutex' is sometimes locked here and sometimes unlocked. Reported-by: Dan Carpenter Signed-off-by: Zefan Li --- kernel/cgroup.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/kernel/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup.c index 7f23551..33f15b3 100644 --- a/kernel/cgroup.c +++ b/kernel/cgroup.c @@ -5290,7 +5290,10 @@ static void cgroup_release_agent(struct work_struct *work) mutex_unlock(&cgroup_mutex); call_usermodehelper(argv[0], argv, envp, UMH_WAIT_EXEC); + goto out_free; out: + mutex_unlock(&cgroup_mutex); +out_free: kfree(agentbuf); kfree(pathbuf); } -- 1.8.0.2