pinctrl: remove mutex lock in groups show
authorHaojian Zhuang <haojian.zhuang@gmail.com>
Thu, 18 Oct 2012 09:07:01 +0000 (17:07 +0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sun, 28 Oct 2012 17:56:15 +0000 (10:56 -0700)
commit 7ae9d71e8df27a3ab60a05ae3add08728debc09c upstream.

Mutex is locked duplicatly by pinconf_groups_show() and
pin_config_group_get(). It results dead lock. So avoid to lock mutex
in pinconf_groups_show().

Signed-off-by: Haojian Zhuang <haojian.zhuang@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/pinctrl/pinconf.c

index 43f474cdc11082717c881b757c6bcaf104bcbb97..baee2cc46a17a7c5c328f98c7eaa25f8f10d8fba 100644 (file)
@@ -537,8 +537,6 @@ static int pinconf_groups_show(struct seq_file *s, void *what)
        seq_puts(s, "Pin config settings per pin group\n");
        seq_puts(s, "Format: group (name): configs\n");
 
-       mutex_lock(&pinctrl_mutex);
-
        while (selector < ngroups) {
                const char *gname = pctlops->get_group_name(pctldev, selector);
 
@@ -549,8 +547,6 @@ static int pinconf_groups_show(struct seq_file *s, void *what)
                selector++;
        }
 
-       mutex_unlock(&pinctrl_mutex);
-
        return 0;
 }