Re: [PATCH 5/5] ASoC: sh: rz-ssi: Add functions to get/set substream pointer

[Mark Brown]

On Mon, Jan 10, 2022 at 09:47:11AM +0000, Lad Prabhakar wrote:

> +static struct snd_pcm_substream *rz_ssi_get_substream(struct rz_ssi_stream *strm)
> +{
> +	struct rz_ssi_priv *ssi = strm->priv;
> +	struct snd_pcm_substream *substream;
> +	unsigned long flags;
> +
> +	spin_lock_irqsave(&ssi->lock, flags);
> +	substream = strm->substream;
> +	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ssi->lock, flags);

This locking doesn't seem useful, we just take a copy of the lock and
then immediately return so the lock isn't protecting anything in
particular - the caller can happily continue using the substream after
the variable has been updated.

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