Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.10 11/17] spi: spidev: fix a race condition when accessing spidev->spi

From: Sasha Levin
Date: Sun Jan 22 2023 - 19:59:49 EST


On Mon, Jan 16, 2023 at 02:40:05PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
On Mon, Jan 16, 2023 at 09:04:42AM -0500, Sasha Levin wrote:
From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@xxxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit a720416d94634068951773cb9e9d6f1b73769e5b ]

There's a spinlock in place that is taken in file_operations callbacks
whenever we check if spidev->spi is still alive (not null). It's also
taken when spidev->spi is set to NULL in remove().

There are ongoing discussions of race conditions with this commit.

Okay, I've dropped it. Thanks!

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Thanks,
Sasha