Re: [PATCH v5 1/3] spi: tegra210-quad: Convert to hard IRQ with high-priority workqueue

[Breno Leitao]

On Wed, Jul 08, 2026 at 01:12:55AM +0000, Vishwaroop A wrote:
> +	spin_lock_irqsave(&tqspi->lock, flags);
> +	t = tqspi->curr_xfer;
> +	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&tqspi->lock, flags);
> +	if (!t)

I am still quite confused what tqspi->lock protects. In the code above,
you get the lock, then you dereference tqspi->curr_xfer, and then it
releases the lock, and use t later without any lock.

if tqspi->lock() is protecting curr_xfer, shouldn't you hold it for
longer?