linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] [media] rc: sunxi-cir: Initialize the spinlock properly

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Date:	Tue, 22 Dec 2015 21:38:53 +0100
From:	Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@...e-electrons.com>
To:	Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@...e.org>
Cc:	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@....samsung.com>,
	Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>,
	linux-media@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [media] rc: sunxi-cir: Initialize the spinlock properly

Hi,

On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 12:27:35PM +0800, Chen-Yu Tsai wrote:
> The driver allocates the spinlock but fails to initialize it correctly.
> The kernel reports a BUG indicating bad spinlock magic when spinlock
> debugging is enabled.
> 
> Call spin_lock_init() on it to initialize it correctly.
> 
> Fixes: b4e3e59fb59c ("[media] rc: add sunxi-ir driver")
> Signed-off-by: Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@...e.org>

You should probably Cc stable on this one.

Thanks!
Maxime

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Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
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