[PATCH] device property: Make modifications of fwnode "flags" thread safe

Rafael J. Wysocki rafael at kernel.org
Tue Mar 17 03:44:16 PDT 2026


On Tue, Mar 17, 2026 at 11:34 AM Wolfram Sang
<wsa+renesas at sang-engineering.com> wrote:
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> > Like Danilo I am also not sure what lock protects fwnode accesses.
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> This is basically the question I asked to Doug. If he also don't see
> one, let's take this patch as is.

I don't recall using any lock for this purpose.

IIRC, the original assumption was that device fwnodes wouldn't be
updated once set.



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