-- 
Content-Disposition: inline; filename=net-ehea-correct-locking-order.patch

Nested locks always need to be taken in the same order. This change
factors out the ehea_fw_handles.lock to make the locking order
consistent.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>

---
 drivers/net/ehea/ehea_main.c |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6.24/drivers/net/ehea/ehea_main.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.24.orig/drivers/net/ehea/ehea_main.c
+++ linux-2.6.24/drivers/net/ehea/ehea_main.c
@@ -2567,14 +2567,14 @@ static int ehea_down(struct net_device *
 	if (port->state == EHEA_PORT_DOWN)
 		return 0;
 
+	mutex_lock(&ehea_fw_handles.lock);
+
 	down(&ehea_bcmc_regs.lock);
 	ehea_drop_multicast_list(dev);
 	ehea_broadcast_reg_helper(port, H_DEREG_BCMC);
 
 	ehea_free_interrupts(dev);
 
-	mutex_lock(&ehea_fw_handles.lock);
-
 	port->state = EHEA_PORT_DOWN;
 
 	ehea_update_bcmc_registrations();

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