Do not lock the cardstate structure mutex earlier than necessary.
Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
                return NULL;
        }
        mutex_init(&cs->mutex);
-       mutex_lock(&cs->mutex);
 
        gig_dbg(DEBUG_INIT, "allocating bcs[0..%d]", channels - 1);
        cs->bcs = kmalloc(channels * sizeof(struct bc_state), GFP_KERNEL);
 
        ++cs->cs_init;
 
+       /* set up character device */
        gigaset_if_init(cs);
 
        /* set up device sysfs */
        add_timer(&cs->timer);
 
        gig_dbg(DEBUG_INIT, "cs initialized");
-       mutex_unlock(&cs->mutex);
        return cs;
 
 error:
-       mutex_unlock(&cs->mutex);
        gig_dbg(DEBUG_INIT, "failed");
        gigaset_freecs(cs);
        return NULL;
 
                return;
 
        tasklet_init(&cs->if_wake_tasklet, &if_wake, (unsigned long) cs);
+
+       mutex_lock(&cs->mutex);
        cs->tty_dev = tty_register_device(drv->tty, cs->minor_index, NULL);
 
        if (!IS_ERR(cs->tty_dev))
                warn("could not register device to the tty subsystem");
                cs->tty_dev = NULL;
        }
+       mutex_unlock(&cs->mutex);
 }
 
 void gigaset_if_free(struct cardstate *cs)