| Date | Mon, 3 Sep 2018 09:16:32 +0200 | From | Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.18 023/131] media: usbtv: use irqsave() in USB's complete callback |
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On 2018-09-02 13:03:27 [+0000], Sasha Levin wrote: > From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> > > [ Upstream commit 320905baa1dbddd3991c287432176d536e1d5b79 ] > > The USB completion callback does not disable interrupts while acquiring > the lock. We want to remove the local_irq_disable() invocation from > __usb_hcd_giveback_urb() and therefore it is required for the callback > handler to disable the interrupts while acquiring the lock. > The callback may be invoked either in IRQ or BH context depending on the > USB host controller. > Use the _irqsave() variant of the locking primitives. > > Cc: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com> > Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> > Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> > Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com>
This change (among the others that do the same in different drivers) does not fix a bug; it is just needed for "other reasons". While this series uncovered a few bugs, this is not one of them. There is no need to backport this stable.
Sebastian
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