linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] tpm: fix an invalid condition in tpm_common

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Date:   Wed, 20 Mar 2019 07:49:27 -0700
From:   Tadeusz Struk <tadeusz.struk@...el.com>
To:     James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>,
        jarkko.sakkinen@...ux.intel.com
Cc:     grawity@...il.com, linux-integrity@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] tpm: fix an invalid condition in tpm_common_poll

On 3/20/19 7:30 AM, James Bottomley wrote:
> Just an observation on this: the mutex is now no-longer necessary
> because a read on a size_t quantity is always atomic.

True, that's why it wasn't there at the beginning, but
then things changed and I forgot to add it, so let's
put it there just in case.

Thanks,
-- 
Tadeusz