linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.10 11/17] spi: spidev: fix a race condition when accessing spidev->spi

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Date:   Sun, 22 Jan 2023 19:59:42 -0500
From:   Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
To:     Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
        Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@...aro.org>,
        linux-spi@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.10 11/17] spi: spidev: fix a race condition
 when accessing spidev->spi

On Mon, Jan 16, 2023 at 02:40:05PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
>On Mon, Jan 16, 2023 at 09:04:42AM -0500, Sasha Levin wrote:
>> From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@...aro.org>
>>
>> [ Upstream commit a720416d94634068951773cb9e9d6f1b73769e5b ]
>>
>> There's a spinlock in place that is taken in file_operations callbacks
>> whenever we check if spidev->spi is still alive (not null). It's also
>> taken when spidev->spi is set to NULL in remove().
>
>There are ongoing discussions of race conditions with this commit.

Okay, I've dropped it. Thanks!

-- 
Thanks,
Sasha