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From: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To: Charles Keepax <ckeepax@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Cc: lrg@ti.com, ldewangan@nvidia.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] regulator: core: Avoid deadlock when regulator_register fails
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 19:01:49 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121114100147.GH7407@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121114093931.GA23525@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>

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On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 09:39:31AM +0000, Charles Keepax wrote:
> When regulator_register fails and exits through the scrub path the
> regulator_put function was called whilst holding the
> regulator_list_mutex, causing deadlock.

Applied, thanks.

> Cc: Laxman Dewangan <ldewangan@nvidia.com>

Please avoid doing this.  I know a lot of people do but it makes for
hand editing of the commit log to remove it.

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      reply	other threads:[~2012-11-14 10:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-11-06 10:34 [PATCH] regulator: core: avoid memory access after freeing it Laxman Dewangan
2012-11-06 11:12 ` Charles Keepax
2012-11-06 11:31   ` Mark Brown
2012-11-13 16:30     ` [PATCH] regulator: core: Add locked version of regulator_put to avoid deadlock Charles Keepax
2012-11-13 17:16       ` Laxman Dewangan
2012-11-13 23:25       ` Mark Brown
2012-11-14  9:39         ` [PATCH v2] regulator: core: Avoid deadlock when regulator_register fails Charles Keepax
2012-11-14 10:01           ` Mark Brown [this message]

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