Re: [PATCH] dma: coh901318: Fix a double-lock bug

From: Linus Walleij
Date: Wed Nov 14 2018 - 08:37:14 EST


On Tue, Nov 6, 2018 at 4:33 AM Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The function coh901318_alloc_chan_resources() calls spin_lock_irqsave()
> before calling coh901318_config().
> But coh901318_config() calls spin_lock_irqsave() again in its
> definition, which may cause a double-lock bug.
>
> Because coh901318_config() is only called by
> coh901318_alloc_chan_resources(), the bug fix is to remove the
> calls to spin-lock and -unlock functions in coh901318_config().
>
> Signed-off-by: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@xxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>

Yours,
Linus Walleij