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Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2015 14:40:13 -0700
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@...el.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
Alexander Usyskin <alexander.usyskin@...el.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Samuel Ortiz <sameo@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [char-misc 4.2] mei: nfc: fix deadlock on shutdown/suspend path
On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 2:22 PM, Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@...el.com> wrote:
> In function mei_nfc_host_exit mei_cl_remove_device cannot be called
> under the device mutex as device removing flow invokes the device driver
> remove handler that calls in turn to mei_cl_disable_device which
> naturally acquires the device mutex.
Yup, tested and confirmed. This patch fixes things for me without the
revert. Thanks.
Greg, should I just apply it directly, or do we go through your tree?
Linus
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