[PATCH] regulator: wm831x isink: Fix notifier mutex lock warning

From: Steve Twiss
Date: Tue Feb 26 2019 - 10:51:28 EST


The mutex for the regulator_dev must be controlled by the caller of
the regulator_notifier_call_chain(), as described in the comment
for that function.

Failure to mutex lock and unlock surrounding the notifier call results
in a kernel WARN_ON_ONCE() which will dump a backtrace for the
regulator_notifier_call_chain() when that function call is first made.
The mutex can be controlled using the regulator_lock/unlock() API.

Fixes: d4d6b722e780 ("regulator: Add WM831x ISINK support")
Suggested-by: Adam Thomson <Adam.Thomson.Opensource@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Steve Twiss <stwiss.opensource@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Charles Keepax <ckeepax@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/regulator/wm831x-isink.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/regulator/wm831x-isink.c b/drivers/regulator/wm831x-isink.c
index 6dd891d7eee3..11f351191dba 100644
--- a/drivers/regulator/wm831x-isink.c
+++ b/drivers/regulator/wm831x-isink.c
@@ -140,9 +140,11 @@ static irqreturn_t wm831x_isink_irq(int irq, void *data)
{
struct wm831x_isink *isink = data;

+ regulator_lock(isink->regulator);
regulator_notifier_call_chain(isink->regulator,
REGULATOR_EVENT_OVER_CURRENT,
NULL);
+ regulator_unlock(isink->regulator);

return IRQ_HANDLED;
}
--
2.20.1