Re: [PATCH v2] misc: atmel-ssc: lock with mutex instead of spinlock

[Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>]

On 24/06/2020 13:35:41+0200, Michał Mirosław wrote:
> Uninterruptible context is not needed in the driver and causes lockdep
> warning because of mutex taken in of_alias_get_id(). Convert the lock to
> mutex to avoid the issue.
> 
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Fixes: 099343c64e16 ("ARM: at91: atmel-ssc: add device tree support")
> Signed-off-by: Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl>
Acked-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>

> ---
>  v2: rebased onto v5.7.5, added Fixes tag
> ---
>  drivers/misc/atmel-ssc.c | 24 ++++++++++++------------
>  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/misc/atmel-ssc.c b/drivers/misc/atmel-ssc.c
> index ab4144ea1f11..d6cd5537126c 100644
> --- a/drivers/misc/atmel-ssc.c
> +++ b/drivers/misc/atmel-ssc.c
> @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
>  #include <linux/clk.h>
>  #include <linux/err.h>
>  #include <linux/io.h>
> -#include <linux/spinlock.h>
> +#include <linux/mutex.h>
>  #include <linux/atmel-ssc.h>
>  #include <linux/slab.h>
>  #include <linux/module.h>
> @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
>  #include "../../sound/soc/atmel/atmel_ssc_dai.h"
>  
>  /* Serialize access to ssc_list and user count */
> -static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(user_lock);
> +static DEFINE_MUTEX(user_lock);
>  static LIST_HEAD(ssc_list);
>  
>  struct ssc_device *ssc_request(unsigned int ssc_num)
> @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ struct ssc_device *ssc_request(unsigned int ssc_num)
>  	int ssc_valid = 0;
>  	struct ssc_device *ssc;
>  
> -	spin_lock(&user_lock);
> +	mutex_lock(&user_lock);
>  	list_for_each_entry(ssc, &ssc_list, list) {
>  		if (ssc->pdev->dev.of_node) {
>  			if (of_alias_get_id(ssc->pdev->dev.of_node, "ssc")
> @@ -44,18 +44,18 @@ struct ssc_device *ssc_request(unsigned int ssc_num)
>  	}
>  
>  	if (!ssc_valid) {
> -		spin_unlock(&user_lock);
> +		mutex_unlock(&user_lock);
>  		pr_err("ssc: ssc%d platform device is missing\n", ssc_num);
>  		return ERR_PTR(-ENODEV);
>  	}
>  
>  	if (ssc->user) {
> -		spin_unlock(&user_lock);
> +		mutex_unlock(&user_lock);
>  		dev_dbg(&ssc->pdev->dev, "module busy\n");
>  		return ERR_PTR(-EBUSY);
>  	}
>  	ssc->user++;
> -	spin_unlock(&user_lock);
> +	mutex_unlock(&user_lock);
>  
>  	clk_prepare(ssc->clk);
>  
> @@ -67,14 +67,14 @@ void ssc_free(struct ssc_device *ssc)
>  {
>  	bool disable_clk = true;
>  
> -	spin_lock(&user_lock);
> +	mutex_lock(&user_lock);
>  	if (ssc->user)
>  		ssc->user--;
>  	else {
>  		disable_clk = false;
>  		dev_dbg(&ssc->pdev->dev, "device already free\n");
>  	}
> -	spin_unlock(&user_lock);
> +	mutex_unlock(&user_lock);
>  
>  	if (disable_clk)
>  		clk_unprepare(ssc->clk);
> @@ -237,9 +237,9 @@ static int ssc_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  		return -ENXIO;
>  	}
>  
> -	spin_lock(&user_lock);
> +	mutex_lock(&user_lock);
>  	list_add_tail(&ssc->list, &ssc_list);
> -	spin_unlock(&user_lock);
> +	mutex_unlock(&user_lock);
>  
>  	platform_set_drvdata(pdev, ssc);
>  
> @@ -258,9 +258,9 @@ static int ssc_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  
>  	ssc_sound_dai_remove(ssc);
>  
> -	spin_lock(&user_lock);
> +	mutex_lock(&user_lock);
>  	list_del(&ssc->list);
> -	spin_unlock(&user_lock);
> +	mutex_unlock(&user_lock);
>  
>  	return 0;
>  }
> -- 
> 2.20.1
> 

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Alexandre Belloni, Bootlin
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