Initially the claim about no need for lock in brightness_show()
was valid as the function was just returning unchanged
LED brightness. After the addition of led_update_brightness() this
is no longer true, as the function can change the brightness if
a LED class driver implements brightness_get op. It can lead to
races between led_update_brightness() and led_set_brightness(),
resulting in overwriting new brightness with the old one before
the former is written to the device.
Signed-off-by: Jacek Anaszewski <j.anaszew...@samsung.com>
Cc: Hans de Goede <hdego...@redhat.com>
Cc: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ai...@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pa...@ucw.cz>
Cc: Andrew Lunn <and...@lunn.ch>
---
drivers/leds/led-class.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/leds/led-class.c b/drivers/leds/led-class.c
index 731e4eb..0c2307b 100644
--- a/drivers/leds/led-class.c
+++ b/drivers/leds/led-class.c
@@ -30,8 +30,9 @@ static ssize_t brightness_show(struct device *dev,
{
struct led_classdev *led_cdev = dev_get_drvdata(dev);
- /* no lock needed for this */
+ mutex_lock(&led_cdev->led_access);
led_update_brightness(led_cdev);
+ mutex_unlock(&led_cdev->led_access);
return sprintf(buf, "%u\n", led_cdev->brightness);
}
--
1.9.1
