From: Muli Ben-Yehuda It's missing a spin_unlock() on the non-error path. sound/oss/trident.c | 4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN sound/oss/trident.c~trident-spin_unlock-fix sound/oss/trident.c --- 25/sound/oss/trident.c~trident-spin_unlock-fix 2003-08-09 16:04:15.000000000 -0700 +++ 25-akpm/sound/oss/trident.c 2003-08-09 16:04:15.000000000 -0700 @@ -3015,9 +3015,9 @@ static u16 ali_ac97_get(struct trident_c } udelay(10); } - + data = inl(TRID_REG(card, address)); - + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&card->lock, flags); return ((u16) (data >> 16)); releasecodec: _