linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 16/16] hold bus_mutex in netlink and search

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Message-Id: <8351389819482@web5j.yandex.ru>
Date:	Thu, 16 Jan 2014 00:58:02 +0400
From:	Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@...emap.net>
To:	David Fries <david@...es.net>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	GregKH <greg@...ah.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 16/16] hold bus_mutex in netlink and search

Hi

15.01.2014, 08:52, "David Fries" <David@...es.net>:
> The bus_mutex needs to be taken to serialize access to a specific bus.
> netlink wasn't updated when bus_mutex was added and was calling
> without that lock held, and not all of the masters were holding the
> bus_mutex in a search.  This was causing the ds2490 hardware to stop
> responding when both netlink and /sys slaves were executing bus
> commands at the same time.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Fries <David@...es.net>

Looks good to me, thank you.
Greg, please pull the whole set if you hadn't yet

Acked-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@...emap.net> 
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