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

[Felipe Balbi]

Hi,

On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 08:39:11PM -0400, Peter Hurley wrote:
> 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.

how can you even say that ? Unless you work for some 3 letter acronym
organizations, you have no clue about the fact that this was tested on a
keystone 2 platform. How else would we have found the issue to start
with ?

-- 
balbi

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