linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] staging: pi433: add mutex fixing concurrency issues.

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Message-ID: <20180609081244.GP14048@gavran.carpriv.carnet.hr>
Date:   Sat, 9 Jun 2018 10:12:44 +0200
From:   Valentin Vidic <Valentin.Vidic@...Net.hr>
To:     Hugo Lefeuvre <hle@....eu.com>
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kernelnewbies@...nelnewbies.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] staging: pi433: add mutex fixing concurrency issues.

On Thu, Jun 07, 2018 at 08:45:03AM -0400, Hugo Lefeuvre wrote:
> After discussing this issue on the kernel newbies mailing list[0] we
> came to the conclusion that it is very unlikely that pi433_release and
> pi433_ioctl would ever run concurrently in this case. This is also
> true for read/write. Unless one can find a situation where this might
> happen, I think we should not add this potentially unnecessary lock.

Yes, so we should than drop the TODO comment on this issue?

-- 
Valentin