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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Binoy Jayan <binoy.jayan@linaro.org>
Cc: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>,
	Florian Schilhabel <florian.c.schilhabel@googlemail.com>,
	driverdev-devel@linuxdriverproject.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] rtl8712: pwrctrl_priv: Replace semaphore lock with mutex
Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2016 18:26:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160821162621.GA13201@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1464841450-24772-5-git-send-email-binoy.jayan@linaro.org>

On Thu, Jun 02, 2016 at 09:54:10AM +0530, Binoy Jayan wrote:
> The semaphore 'lock' in 'pwrctrl_priv' is used as a simple mutex, so it
> should be written as one. Semaphores are going away in the future.
> _enter_pwrlock was using down_interruptible(), so the lock could be broken
> by sending a signal. This could be a bug, because nothing checks the return
> code here. Hence, using mutex_lock instead of the interruptible version.
> Removing the now unused _enter_pwrlock and _down_sema.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Binoy Jayan <binoy.jayan@linaro.org>
> Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> Tested-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
> ---
> This patch depends on the following patch:
>   rtl8712: intf_priv: Replace semaphore lock with completion

This one patch doesn't apply to my tree for some odd reason.

Can you rebase it on my staging-testing branch and resend it?

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2016-08-21 21:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-06-02  4:24 [PATCH v2 0/4] *** rtl8712: Replace semaphores with mutex / completions *** Binoy Jayan
2016-06-02  4:24 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] rtl8712: Replace semaphore cmd_queue_sema with completion Binoy Jayan
2016-06-02  4:24 ` [PATCH v2 2/4] rtl8712: Replace semaphore terminate_cmdthread_sema " Binoy Jayan
2016-06-02  4:24 ` [PATCH v2 3/4] rtl8712: intf_priv: Replace semaphore lock " Binoy Jayan
2016-06-02  4:24 ` [PATCH v2 4/4] rtl8712: pwrctrl_priv: Replace semaphore lock with mutex Binoy Jayan
2016-08-21 16:26   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2016-06-02  7:43 ` [PATCH v2 0/4] *** rtl8712: Replace semaphores with mutex / completions *** Arnd Bergmann
2016-06-02 15:15   ` Larry Finger

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