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Issue of the Implementation # L0025

Brief

drivers/media/radio/si470x/radio-si470x-common.c: double mutex_lock in si470x_fops_read()

Detailed Description

First mutex_lock(&radio->lock) in line 441.

Second mutex_lock(&radio->lock) in line 462.

 433static ssize_t si470x_fops_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf,
 434                size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
 435{
....
 441        mutex_lock(&radio->lock);
 442        if ((radio->registers[SYSCONFIG1] & SYSCONFIG1_RDS) == 0)
 443                si470x_rds_on(radio);
 444
 445        /* block if no new data available */
 446        while (radio->wr_index == radio->rd_index) {
 447                if (file->f_flags & O_NONBLOCK) {
 448                        retval = -EWOULDBLOCK;
 449                        goto done;
 450                }
 451                if (wait_event_interruptible(radio->read_queue,
 452                        radio->wr_index != radio->rd_index) < 0) {
 453                        retval = -EINTR;
 454                        goto done;
 455                }
 456        }
 457
 458        /* calculate block count from byte count */
 459        count /= 3;
 460
 461        /* copy RDS block out of internal buffer and to user buffer */
 462        mutex_lock(&radio->lock);

Possible solutions

 drivers/media/radio/si470x/radio-si470x-common.c |    1 -
 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/media/radio/si470x/radio-si470x-common.c b/drivers/media/radio/si470x/radio-si470x-common.c
index 60c176f..38ae6cd 100644
--- a/drivers/media/radio/si470x/radio-si470x-common.c
+++ b/drivers/media/radio/si470x/radio-si470x-common.c
@@ -460,7 +460,6 @@ static ssize_t si470x_fops_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf,
 	count /= 3;
 
 	/* copy RDS block out of internal buffer and to user buffer */
-	mutex_lock(&radio->lock);
 	while (block_count < count) {
 		if (radio->rd_index == radio->wr_index)
 			break;
-- 

Component

linux-kernel 2.6.37

Accepted

https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/1/23/11
commit

Status

Fixed in kernel 2.6.39-rc1

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