[PATCH] sdhci-s3c: fix incorrect spinlock usage after merge
Andrew Morton
akpm at linux-foundation.org
Mon Sep 20 21:29:12 EDT 2010
On Tue, 21 Sep 2010 02:17:11 +0100 Chris Ball <cjb at laptop.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 03:03:42PM +0200, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
> > In the commit f522886e202a34a2191dd5d471b3c4d46410a9a0 a merge conflict
> > in the sdhci-s3c driver been fixed. However the fix used incorrect
> > spinlock operation - it cause a race with sdhci interrupt service. The
> > correct way to solve it is to use spin_lock_irqsave/irqrestore() calls.
>
> Thanks, applied to mmc-next with:
> Signed-off-by: Chris Ball <cjb at laptop.org>
>
> Andrew, not sure how best to get this upstream -- do you want to send
> this up to Linus (for -rc5) via your queue in -mm?
Ordinarily I'd expect you to send it to Linus.
I tend to merge important-looking bugfixes in my tree in case
maintainers lose them (happens regularly). I'll then start spamming
the maintainer with the patch. If the maintainer remains dead then I
might merge it myself, or I might tag it for -stable backporting and
try again in the next kernel.
If the maintainer can't be bothered setting up a pull request then he
can just send an acked-by and explicitly ask me to merge it up and
I'll then add it to my next approximately-weekly Linus patchbombing.
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