On 14/06/18 07:14, Chanwoo Choi wrote:
> Previously, extcon used the spinlock before calling the notifier_call_chain
> to prevent the scheduled out of task and to prevent the notification delay.
> When spinlock is locked for sending the notification, deadlock issue
> occured on the side of extcon consumer device. To fix this issue,
> extcon consumer device should always use the work. it is always not
> reasonable to use work.
> 
> To fix this issue on extcon consumer device, release locking when sending
> the notification of connector state.
> 
> Fixes: ab11af049f88 ("extcon: Add the synchronization extcon APIs to support 
> the notification")
> Cc: sta...@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: Roger Quadros <rog...@ti.com>
> Cc: Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kis...@ti.com>
> Signed-off-by: Chanwoo Choi <cw00.c...@samsung.com>

Reviewed-by: Roger Quadros <rog...@ti.com>

> ---
>  drivers/extcon/extcon.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/extcon/extcon.c b/drivers/extcon/extcon.c
> index 8bff5fd18185..f75b08a45d4e 100644
> --- a/drivers/extcon/extcon.c
> +++ b/drivers/extcon/extcon.c
> @@ -433,8 +433,8 @@ int extcon_sync(struct extcon_dev *edev, unsigned int id)
>               return index;
>  
>       spin_lock_irqsave(&edev->lock, flags);
> -
>       state = !!(edev->state & BIT(index));
> +     spin_unlock_irqrestore(&edev->lock, flags);
>  
>       /*
>        * Call functions in a raw notifier chain for the specific one
> @@ -448,6 +448,7 @@ int extcon_sync(struct extcon_dev *edev, unsigned int id)
>        */
>       raw_notifier_call_chain(&edev->nh_all, state, edev);
>  
> +     spin_lock_irqsave(&edev->lock, flags);
>       /* This could be in interrupt handler */
>       prop_buf = (char *)get_zeroed_page(GFP_ATOMIC);
>       if (!prop_buf) {
> 

-- 
cheers,
-roger

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