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

From: Dimitris Papastamos
Date: Thu Feb 14 2013 - 09:57:11 EST


On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 02:54:17PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> 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.

Aw yes, cool.
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