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From: Srinivas KANDAGATLA <srinivas.kandagatla@st.com>
To: Sean Young <sean@mess.org>
Cc: linux-media@vger.kernel.org, alipowski@interia.pl,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, srinivas.kandagatla@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/2] media: rc: Add user count to rc dev.
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2013 12:07:31 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51E91DF3.50002@st.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130719110147.GA1104@pequod.mess.org>

On 19/07/13 12:01, Sean Young wrote:

>> +	int rval = 0;
>>  
>> -	return rdev->open(rdev);
>> +	if (!rdev->users++)
>> +		rval = rdev->open(rdev);
>> +
>> +	if (rval)
>> +		rdev->users--;
>> +
>> +	return rval;
> 
> This looks racey. Some locking is needed, I think rc_dev->lock should work
> fine for this. Here and in the lirc code path too.
thanks Sean,
It makes sense, will fix this in v2.


Srini

> 
> Sean
> 
>>  }
>

  reply	other threads:[~2013-07-19 11:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-19  8:38 [PATCH v1 0/2] Allow rc device to open from lirc Srinivas KANDAGATLA
2013-07-19  8:39 ` [PATCH v1 1/2] media: rc: Add user count to rc dev Srinivas KANDAGATLA
2013-07-19 11:01   ` Sean Young
2013-07-19 11:07     ` Srinivas KANDAGATLA [this message]
2013-07-19  8:39 ` [PATCH v1 2/2] media: lirc: Allow lirc dev to talk to rc device Srinivas KANDAGATLA

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