linux-kernel - [PATCH 4/5] nvmem: core: add locking to nvmem_find

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Message-Id: <20170609095910.4090-5-srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org>
Date:   Fri,  9 Jun 2017 10:59:09 +0100
From:   Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@...aro.org>
To:     gregkh@...uxfoundation.org
Cc:     srinivas.kandagatla@...aro.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH 4/5] nvmem: core: add locking to nvmem_find_cell

From: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>

Adding entries to nvmem_cells and deleting entries from it is
protected by nvmem_cells_mutex. Therefore this mutex should
also protect iterating over the list.

Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>
Signed-off-by: Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@...aro.org>
---
 drivers/nvmem/core.c | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/nvmem/core.c b/drivers/nvmem/core.c
index 0cbac71195b5..4c49285168fb 100644
--- a/drivers/nvmem/core.c
+++ b/drivers/nvmem/core.c
@@ -287,9 +287,15 @@ static struct nvmem_cell *nvmem_find_cell(const char *cell_id)
 {
 	struct nvmem_cell *p;
 
+	mutex_lock(&nvmem_cells_mutex);
+
 	list_for_each_entry(p, &nvmem_cells, node)
-		if (p && !strcmp(p->name, cell_id))
+		if (p && !strcmp(p->name, cell_id)) {
+			mutex_unlock(&nvmem_cells_mutex);
 			return p;
+		}
+
+	mutex_unlock(&nvmem_cells_mutex);
 
 	return NULL;
 }
-- 
2.11.0