Reduce scope of sysfs_lock protection during chip export and unexport, which is only needed to prevent gpiod (re-)exports during chip removal. Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/gpio/gpiolib-sysfs.c | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib-sysfs.c b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib-sysfs.c index da0300224b4a..c433f075f349 100644 --- a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib-sysfs.c +++ b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib-sysfs.c @@ -764,7 +764,6 @@ int gpiochip_export(struct gpio_chip *chip) return 0; /* use chip->base for the ID; it's already known to be unique */ - mutex_lock(&sysfs_lock); dev = device_create_with_groups(&gpio_class, chip->dev, MKDEV(0, 0), chip, gpiochip_groups, "gpiochip%d", chip->base); @@ -772,6 +771,8 @@ int gpiochip_export(struct gpio_chip *chip) status = PTR_ERR(dev); else status = 0; + + mutex_lock(&sysfs_lock); chip->exported = (status == 0); mutex_unlock(&sysfs_lock); @@ -788,17 +789,17 @@ void gpiochip_unexport(struct gpio_chip *chip) struct gpio_desc *desc; unsigned int i; - mutex_lock(&sysfs_lock); dev = class_find_device(&gpio_class, NULL, chip, match_export); if (dev) { put_device(dev); device_unregister(dev); /* prevent further gpiod exports */ + mutex_lock(&sysfs_lock); chip->exported = false; + mutex_unlock(&sysfs_lock); status = 0; } else status = -ENODEV; - mutex_unlock(&sysfs_lock); if (status) chip_dbg(chip, "%s: status %d\n", __func__, status); -- 2.0.5 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-gpio" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html