From: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To: Dimitris Papastamos <dp@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, patches@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] regmap: debugfs: Ensure proper locking of `debugfs_off_cache' list
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2013 14:54:17 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130214145416.GQ13249@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1360845108-30428-1-git-send-email-dp@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
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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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2013-02-14 12:31 [PATCH 2/2] regmap: debugfs: Ensure proper locking of `debugfs_off_cache' list Dimitris Papastamos
2013-02-14 14:54 ` Mark Brown [this message]
2013-02-14 14:57 ` Dimitris Papastamos
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