Re: [PATCH 10/11] Revert "serial: omap: unlock the port lock"

[Peter Hurley]

On 03/25/2014 02:28 PM, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> * Felipe Balbi <balbi@xxxxxx> [140320 12:39]:
> > This reverts commit 0324a821029e1f54e7a7f8fed48693cfce42dc0e.
> >
> > That commit tried to fix a deadlock problem when using
> > hci_ldisc, but it turns out the bug was in hci_ldsic
> > all along where it was calling ->write() from within
> > ->write_wakeup() callback.
> >
> > The problem is that ->write_wakeup() was called with
> > port lock held and ->write() tried to grab the same
> > port lock.
>
> Should this and the next patch be earlier in the series
> as a fix for the v3.15-rc cycle? Should they be cc: stable
> as well?

Well, right now the other fix has had _zero_ testing
so not really a -stable candidate just yet.

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