Re: [PATCH 2/2] regmap: debugfs: Ensure proper locking of`debugfs_off_cache' list

From: Mark Brown
Date: Thu Feb 14 2013 - 09:54:25 EST


On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 12:31:48PM +0000, Dimitris Papastamos wrote:

> There is a possible race between the read operations of the `registers'
> file and the `range' file. Close that down by taking the appropriate
> locks when modifying/accessing the list.

This seems like an incremental fix on the previous change; the previous
change introduced the ranges file with a race condition. If splitting
them up add the lock first and then add the ranges file that made it
needed.

Please do also thread patch series together.

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