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Message-ID: <Y43rPdus/9INC390@smile.fi.intel.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2022 14:59:41 +0200
From: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
To: Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@...ev.pl>
Cc: Kent Gibson <warthog618@...il.com>,
Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
Nick Hainke <vincent@...temli.org>, linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 0/2] gpiolib: don't allow user-space to crash the
kernel with hot-unplugs
On Mon, Dec 05, 2022 at 01:39:01PM +0100, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@...aro.org>
>
> Linus Torvalds pointed out that using trylock here is wrong. This iteration
> drops it in favor of unconditional locks but keeps all the fixes that came
> later.
>
> I will also not send it for this release but make it part of the updates PR
> for v6.2 to give it some time in next.
>
> v7 -> v8:
> - don't use down_read_trylock(), just go straight for a full lock
Yep, it was a good wrap-up explanation.
--
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko
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