Add lock protection from race conditions to 104-quad-8 counter driver for differential encoder status code changes. Mutex lock calls used for protection. Signed-off-by: Syed Nayyar Waris <syednwaris@xxxxxxxxx> --- Changes in v5: - Change spin lock calls to mutex lock calls. - Modify the title description. drivers/counter/104-quad-8.c | 18 +++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/counter/104-quad-8.c b/drivers/counter/104-quad-8.c index 9dab190..21b2e3e 100644 --- a/drivers/counter/104-quad-8.c +++ b/drivers/counter/104-quad-8.c @@ -1151,18 +1151,26 @@ static ssize_t quad8_signal_cable_fault_read(struct counter_device *counter, struct counter_signal *signal, void *private, char *buf) { - const struct quad8_iio *const priv = counter->priv; + struct quad8_iio *const priv = counter->priv; const size_t channel_id = signal->id / 2; - const bool disabled = !(priv->cable_fault_enable & BIT(channel_id)); + bool disabled; unsigned int status; unsigned int fault; - if (disabled) + mutex_lock(&priv->lock); + + disabled = !(priv->cable_fault_enable & BIT(channel_id)); + + if (disabled) { + mutex_unlock(&priv->lock); return -EINVAL; + } /* Logic 0 = cable fault */ status = inb(priv->base + QUAD8_DIFF_ENCODER_CABLE_STATUS); + mutex_unlock(&priv->lock); + /* Mask respective channel and invert logic */ fault = !(status & BIT(channel_id)); @@ -1194,6 +1202,8 @@ static ssize_t quad8_signal_cable_fault_enable_write( if (ret) return ret; + mutex_lock(&priv->lock); + if (enable) priv->cable_fault_enable |= BIT(channel_id); else @@ -1204,6 +1214,8 @@ static ssize_t quad8_signal_cable_fault_enable_write( outb(cable_fault_enable, priv->base + QUAD8_DIFF_ENCODER_CABLE_STATUS); + mutex_unlock(&priv->lock); + return len; } -- 2.7.4