Acked-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@xxxxxxxxxxx>
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 6:03 AM, Tobias Lorenz <tobias.lorenz@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> This patch fixes a mutex locking bug causing userspace processes
> to hang indefinitely upon reading the radio device for RDS data.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nils Faerber <nils.faerber@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Tobias Lorenz <tobias.lorenz@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/media/radio/si470x/radio-si470x-common.c | 1 -
> 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/media/radio/si470x/radio-si470x-common.c
> b/drivers/media/radio/si470x/radio-si470x-common.c
> index 4c69698..41ee757 100644
> --- a/drivers/media/radio/si470x/radio-si470x-common.c
> +++ b/drivers/media/radio/si470x/radio-si470x-common.c
> @@ -483,7 +483,6 @@ static ssize_t si470x_fops_read(struct file *file,
> char __user *buf,
> count /= 3;
>
> /* copy RDS block out of internal buffer and to user buffer */
> - mutex_lock(&radio->lock);
> while (block_count < count) {
> if (radio->rd_index == radio->wr_index)
> break;
> --
> 1.7.2.3
>
>
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