linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.9 01/43] usb: usbtest: use irqsave() in USB's complete callback

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Message-ID: <20180907054335.GC10250@kroah.com>
Date:   Fri, 7 Sep 2018 07:43:35 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Sasha Levin <Alexander.Levin@...rosoft.com>
Cc:     "stable@...r.kernel.org" <stable@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.9 01/43] usb: usbtest: use irqsave() in USB's
 complete callback

On Fri, Sep 07, 2018 at 12:38:19AM +0000, Sasha Levin wrote:
> From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>
> 
> [ Upstream commit 6f3fde684d0232e66ada3410f016a58e09a87689 ]
> 
> The USB completion callback does not disable interrupts while acquiring
> the lock. We want to remove the local_irq_disable() invocation from
> __usb_hcd_giveback_urb() and therefore it is required for the callback
> handler to disable the interrupts while acquiring the lock.
> The callback may be invoked either in IRQ or BH context depending on the
> USB host controller.
> Use the _irqsave() variant of the locking primitives.
> 
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
> Acked-by: Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@...rosoft.com>
> ---
>  drivers/usb/misc/usbtest.c | 10 ++++++----
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

And dropped here :)