linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] gpio: pca953x: add a comment explaining the need for a lockdep subclass

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Wed, 12 Oct 2016 09:00:14 +0200
From:   Wolfram Sang <wsa@...-dreams.de>
To:     Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@...libre.com>
Cc:     Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
        Alexandre Courbot <gnurou@...il.com>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
        Vignesh R <vigneshr@...com>, Yong Li <yong.b.li@...el.com>,
        Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@...der.be>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Peter Rosin <peda@...ntia.se>,
        linux-i2c <linux-i2c@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-gpio <linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gpio: pca953x: add a comment explaining the need for a
 lockdep subclass

On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 11:54:15AM +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> This is a follow-up to commit 559b46990e76 ("gpio: pca953x: fix an
> incorrect lockdep warning"). The reason for calling
> lockdep_set_subclass() in pca953x_probe() is not explained in
> the code.
> 
> Add a comment describing the problem, partial solution and required
> future extensions.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@...libre.com>

Applied to for-current, thanks!


Download attachment "signature.asc" of type "application/pgp-signature" (820 bytes)