spin_lock doesn't work?!?

[melinda develey]

I discovered that I called spin_lock two times consecutively without calling spin_unlock but my code didn't lock (I was managing an ioctl). 
Probably I didn't understand how spin_lock works!!!!

Any help?

       
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