From: Hans Verkuil <[email protected]>

commit 288eceb0858323d66bff03cf386630a797b248ad upstream.

For some inexplicable reason I decided to call flush_scheduled_work()
instead of cancel_delayed_work_sync(). The problem with that is that
flush_scheduled_work() waits for *all* queued scheduled work to be
completed instead of just the work itself.

This can cause a deadlock if a CEC driver also schedules work that
takes the same lock. See the comments for flush_scheduled_work() in
linux/workqueue.h.

This is exactly what has been observed a few times.

This patch simply replaces flush_scheduled_work() by
cancel_delayed_work_sync().

Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>      # for v5.8 and up
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

---
 drivers/media/cec/core/cec-adap.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/media/cec/core/cec-adap.c
+++ b/drivers/media/cec/core/cec-adap.c
@@ -1199,7 +1199,7 @@ void cec_received_msg_ts(struct cec_adap
                        /* Cancel the pending timeout work */
                        if (!cancel_delayed_work(&data->work)) {
                                mutex_unlock(&adap->lock);
-                               flush_scheduled_work();
+                               cancel_delayed_work_sync(&data->work);
                                mutex_lock(&adap->lock);
                        }
                        /*


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