[PATCH] mtd: spi-nor: scope the exclusive RWW lock

Michael Walle mwalle at kernel.org
Tue Aug 11 23:14:18 PDT 2026


On Tue Aug 11, 2026 at 12:05 PM CEST, Tudor Ambarus wrote:
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> On 8/10/26 11:25 AM, Michael Walle wrote:
>> Tudor, do
>> you know why you've omitted the guard() in spi_nor_rww_start_exclusive()?
>
> because using guard changes the behavior of the code.

But that commit removed the mutex_unlock(), thus keeping the lock.
That wasn't the case before the commit. IMHO the Fixes: tag is
correct.

-michael



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