Re: [PATCH] rpmsg: glink: keep balance of mutex locks in qcom_glink_request_intent()

From: Bjorn Andersson
Date: Tue Oct 10 2017 - 14:26:48 EST


On Fri 06 Oct 14:23 PDT 2017, Alexey Khoroshilov wrote:

> If qcom_glink_tx() fails in qcom_glink_request_intent(),
> it returns immediately leaving intent_req_lock mutex locked.
> So the next tries to send intent request lead to deadlock.
>
> Found by Linux Driver Verification project (linuxtesting.org).
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Khoroshilov <khoroshilov@xxxxxxxxx>

Thanks Alexey.

This was found by Dan Carpenter a few weeks ago, but I failed to send
the pull request for it, will do so now.

Regards,
Bjorn