[PATCH 09/12] ipack/devices/ipoctal: protect the channel data processing with a spinlock

[Samuel Iglesias Gonsalvez]

We protect important data such as TX buffer pointer, nb_bytes counter and status
registers of the device, from accessing several times at the same time.

Signed-off-by: Samuel Iglesias Gonsalvez <siglesias@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 drivers/ipack/devices/ipoctal.c |    3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/ipack/devices/ipoctal.c b/drivers/ipack/devices/ipoctal.c
index d57ac61..8dff66e 100644
--- a/drivers/ipack/devices/ipoctal.c
+++ b/drivers/ipack/devices/ipoctal.c
@@ -191,6 +191,8 @@ static void ipoctal_irq_channel(struct ipoctal_channel *channel)
 	tty = tty_port_tty_get(&channel->tty_port);
 	if (!tty)
 		return;
+
+	spin_lock(&channel->lock);
 	/* The HW is organized in pair of channels.  See which register we need
 	 * to read from */
 	isr = ioread8(&channel->block_regs->r.isr);
@@ -216,6 +218,7 @@ static void ipoctal_irq_channel(struct ipoctal_channel *channel)
 
 	tty_flip_buffer_push(tty);
 	tty_kref_put(tty);
+	spin_unlock(&channel->lock);
 }
 
 static irqreturn_t ipoctal_irq_handler(void *arg)
-- 
1.7.10.4

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