spin_lock_irqsave() is not nestable. The second time that it gets called it overwrites the "flags" variable and so IRQs can't be restored properly. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@xxxxxxxxx> --- Oh. Crap. I don't want to adopt these drivers. But I already wrote the patch before I read the TODO file, so I'm still going to submit it. diff --git a/drivers/staging/generic_serial/generic_serial.c b/drivers/staging/generic_serial/generic_serial.c index 5954ee1..466988d 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/generic_serial/generic_serial.c +++ b/drivers/staging/generic_serial/generic_serial.c @@ -566,9 +566,9 @@ void gs_close(struct tty_struct * tty, struct file * filp) * line status register. */ - spin_lock_irqsave(&port->driver_lock, flags); + spin_lock(&port->driver_lock); port->rd->disable_rx_interrupts (port); - spin_unlock_irqrestore(&port->driver_lock, flags); + spin_unlock(&port->driver_lock); spin_unlock_irqrestore(&port->port.lock, flags); /* close has no way of returning "EINTR", so discard return value */ _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel