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ACPI EC: remove potential deadlock from EC

Signed-off-by: Alexey Starikovskiy <astarikovskiy@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Alexey Starikovskiy 18 years ago
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      drivers/acpi/ec.c

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drivers/acpi/ec.c

@@ -710,9 +710,7 @@ static int acpi_ec_add(struct acpi_device *device)
 	/* Check if we found the boot EC */
 	if (boot_ec) {
 		if (boot_ec->gpe == ec->gpe) {
-			mutex_lock(&boot_ec->lock);
 			ec_remove_handlers(boot_ec);
-			mutex_unlock(&boot_ec->lock);
 			mutex_destroy(&boot_ec->lock);
 			kfree(boot_ec);
 			first_ec = boot_ec = NULL;