This patch fixes a memory and semaphore leak in the viotape driver's
char device write op. It leaks the DMA memory and the semaphore lock
in case the device was opened with O_NONBLOCK.

This patch is only compile tested, because I do not have the hardware.

Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <m...@bu3sch.de>

---
 drivers/char/viotape.c |   19 ++++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

--- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/char/viotape.c
+++ linux-2.6/drivers/char/viotape.c
@@ -401,30 +401,31 @@ static ssize_t viotap_write(struct file 
                        viopath_targetinst(viopath_hostLp),
                        (u64)(unsigned long)op, VIOVERSION << 16,
                        ((u64)devi.devno << 48) | op->dmaaddr, count, 0, 0);
        if (hvrc != HvLpEvent_Rc_Good) {
                printk(VIOTAPE_KERN_WARN "hv error on op %d\n",
                                (int)hvrc);
                ret = -EIO;
                goto free_dma;
        }
 
-       if (noblock)
-               return count;
-
-       wait_for_completion(&op->com);
+       if (noblock) {
+               ret = count;
+       } else {
+               wait_for_completion(&op->com);
 
-       if (op->rc)
-               ret = tape_rc_to_errno(op->rc, "write", devi.devno);
-       else {
-               chg_state(devi.devno, VIOT_WRITING, file);
-               ret = op->count;
+               if (op->rc)
+                       ret = tape_rc_to_errno(op->rc, "write", devi.devno);
+               else {
+                       chg_state(devi.devno, VIOT_WRITING, file);
+                       ret = op->count;
+               }
        }
 
 free_dma:
        dma_free_coherent(op->dev, count, op->buffer, op->dmaaddr);
 up_sem:
        up(&reqSem);
 free_op:
        free_op_struct(op);
        return ret;
 }

-- 
Greetings, Michael.
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