Re: [patch] Staging: generic_serial: fix double locking bug

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On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 10:28:31PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> 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.

Heh, don't worry, you don't "own" them, I'll just take this fix for now
and still leave them in the "abandoned" category :)

thanks,

greg k-h
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