On Sat, Sep 05, 2015 at 01:12:02PM +0100, Salah Triki wrote: > dgnc_poll_stop is a local variable in dgnc_driver.c, so it is useless to take dgnc_poll_lock before > accessing to this variable. No, not at all! scope doesn't matter for locks, this patch is broken and wrong. How did you test it? greg k-h _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel