Re: [PATCH v2] tee: optee: Fix supplicant wait loop

[Sumit Garg]

On Mon, 3 Feb 2025 at 16:23, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Feb 3, 2025, at 10:31, Jens Wiklander wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 3, 2025 at 9:00 AM Sumit Garg <sumit.garg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Why not mutex_lock()? If we fail to acquire the mutex here, we will
> > quite likely free the req list item below at the end of this function
> > while it remains in the list.
>
> Right, I had mentioned mutex_lock_killable in an earlier reply,
> as I didn't know exactly where it hang. If we know that the
> wait_event_interruptible() was causing the hang, then the
> normal mutex_lock should be fine.
>

Yeah for my current test scenario mutex_lock() works fine too but I
added mutex_lock_killable() just in another theoretical corner case
being stuck acquiring mutex while someone is trying to kill the
process. But let's avoid over complexity for the time being with a
simpler mutex_lock() approach.

-Sumit