Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 22 Jan 2023 19:59:42 -0500 | From | Sasha Levin <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.10 11/17] spi: spidev: fix a race condition when accessing spidev->spi |
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On Mon, Jan 16, 2023 at 02:40:05PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote: >On Mon, Jan 16, 2023 at 09:04:42AM -0500, Sasha Levin wrote: >> From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@linaro.org> >> >> [ Upstream commit a720416d94634068951773cb9e9d6f1b73769e5b ] >> >> There's a spinlock in place that is taken in file_operations callbacks >> whenever we check if spidev->spi is still alive (not null). It's also >> taken when spidev->spi is set to NULL in remove(). > >There are ongoing discussions of race conditions with this commit.
Okay, I've dropped it. Thanks!
-- Thanks, Sasha
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