linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] usb: dwc2: gadget: sparse warning of context imbalance

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Date:	Thu, 16 Oct 2014 09:57:52 -0500
From:	Felipe Balbi <balbi@...com>
To:	Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>
CC:	Felipe Balbi <balbi@...com>, Paul Zimmerman <paulz@...opsys.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	<linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] usb: dwc2: gadget: sparse warning of context
 imbalance

On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 08:22:08PM +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 08:21:55AM -0500, Felipe Balbi wrote:
> > HI,
> > 
> > On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 01:11:10PM +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> > > sparse was giving the following warning:
> > >         warning: context imbalance in 's3c_hsotg_ep_enable'
> > > 	        - different lock contexts for basic block
> > > 
> > > we were returning ENOMEM while still holding the spinlock.
> > > The sparse warning was fixed by releasing the spinlock before return.
> > > 
> > > This patch depends on the previous patch of the series.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip@...torindia.org>
> > 
> > this should be patch one so it can be backported to stable kernels.
> > 
> my v1 patch fixed only this , while reviewing that one Paul Zimmerman
> suggested to rewrite the return statements.
> so this v2 series had the rewrite and the spinlock error fix.
> now if this is to be made the patch one then it will be a duplicate of
> my v1 followed by another patch for return statements. 
> should i do that ?

Paul has the final word on this driver, if he already asked you to
change, I withdraw my comment ;-)

cheers

-- 
balbi

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