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acpi: bus: check once more for an empty list after locking it

List could have become empty after the unlocked check that was made earlier,
so check again inside the lock.

Should fix https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=427765

Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Chuck Ebbert 17 years ago
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1 changed files with 4 additions and 3 deletions
  1. 4 3
      drivers/acpi/bus.c

+ 4 - 3
drivers/acpi/bus.c

@@ -373,10 +373,11 @@ int acpi_bus_receive_event(struct acpi_bus_event *event)
 	}
 
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&acpi_bus_event_lock, flags);
-	entry =
-	    list_entry(acpi_bus_event_list.next, struct acpi_bus_event, node);
-	if (entry)
+	if (!list_empty(&acpi_bus_event_list)) {
+		entry = list_entry(acpi_bus_event_list.next,
+				   struct acpi_bus_event, node);
 		list_del(&entry->node);
+	}
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&acpi_bus_event_lock, flags);
 
 	if (!entry)