linux-kernel - Re: Broken locking in leds-lp5523.c

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Date:	Thu, 9 Jan 2014 23:45:41 +0100
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:	Bryan Wu <cooloney@...il.com>
Cc:	"rpurdie@...ys.net" <rpurdie@...ys.net>,
	Linux LED Subsystem <linux-leds@...r.kernel.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, milo kim <milo.kim@...com>,
	Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@...il.com>,
	Sebastian Reichel <sre@...ian.org>,
	Sebastian Reichel <sre@...g0.de>
Subject: Re: Broken locking in leds-lp5523.c

Hi!

> > Now, this is untested patch from my reverse-engineering. I hope I
> > understood things right...
> >
> > In particular, there's unbalanced unlock in
> > lp5523_update_program_memory, and lp5523_update_program_memory needs
> > to be protected by the lock.
> >
> > Comments? Does someone maintain this?
> >
> 
> Actually the locking issue was fixed in my for-next branch,
> http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/cooloney/linux-leds.git/commit/?h=for-next&id=0d70bdb957cde2c25a4b3e4c93d0d33403795be9
> 

Yes, that should solve it. Thanks!
								Pavel
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