Locking the root adapter for __i2c_transfer will deadlock if the device sits behind a mux-locked I2C mux. Switch to the finer-grained i2c_lock_segment. If the device does not sit behind a mux-locked mux, the two locking variants are equivalent. Signed-off-by: Peter Rosin <peda@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/i2c/muxes/i2c-mux-pca9541.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/i2c/muxes/i2c-mux-pca9541.c b/drivers/i2c/muxes/i2c-mux-pca9541.c index 6a39adaf433f..74c560ed44cc 100644 --- a/drivers/i2c/muxes/i2c-mux-pca9541.c +++ b/drivers/i2c/muxes/i2c-mux-pca9541.c @@ -345,11 +345,11 @@ static int pca9541_probe(struct i2c_client *client, /* * I2C accesses are unprotected here. - * We have to lock the adapter before releasing the bus. + * We have to lock the I2C segment before releasing the bus. */ - i2c_lock_adapter(adap); + i2c_lock_segment(adap); pca9541_release_bus(client); - i2c_unlock_adapter(adap); + i2c_unlock_segment(adap); /* Create mux adapter */ -- 2.11.0
