Re: [PATCH] i40iw: Remove unnecessary synchronize_irq() before free_irq()

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On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 10:15:03AM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 11:31:26AM +0200, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote:
> > Calling synchronize_irq() right before free_irq() is quite useless. On one
> > hand the IRQ can easily fire again before free_irq() is entered, on the
> > other hand free_irq() itself calls synchronize_irq() internally (in a race
> > condition free way), before any state associated with the IRQ is freed.
> > 
> > Patch was generated using the following semantic patch:
> > // <smpl>
> > @@
> > expression irq;
> > @@
> > -synchronize_irq(irq);
> >  free_irq(irq, ...);
> > // </smpl>
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Thanks
> Reviewed-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 

Thanks
Acked-by: Faisal Latif <faisal.latif#intel.com>

> > ---
> >  drivers/infiniband/hw/i40iw/i40iw_main.c | 1 -
> >  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/i40iw/i40iw_main.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/i40iw/i40iw_main.c
> > index 90e5af2..006c44f 100644
> > --- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/i40iw/i40iw_main.c
> > +++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/i40iw/i40iw_main.c
> > @@ -270,7 +270,6 @@ static void i40iw_disable_irq(struct i40iw_sc_dev *dev,
> >  		i40iw_wr32(dev->hw, I40E_PFINT_DYN_CTLN(msix_vec->idx - 1), 0);
> >  	else
> >  		i40iw_wr32(dev->hw, I40E_VFINT_DYN_CTLN1(msix_vec->idx - 1), 0);
> > -	synchronize_irq(msix_vec->irq);
> >  	free_irq(msix_vec->irq, dev_id);
> >  }
> >  
> > -- 
> > 2.1.4
> > 
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