There is no need to hold the group lock when unregistering the notifier, but doing so triggers a warning about a possible cyclic lock dependency. The lock warning cover the case where a subdevice is about to be bound to the notifier at the same time as it's unregistered. The locking for this scenario is handled in the v4l2-async framework so it's safe to remove the lock in the driver. This match the locking logic in the driver for when the notifier in question is registered. Signed-off-by: Niklas Söderlund <niklas.soderlund+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/media/platform/rcar-vin/rcar-core.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/media/platform/rcar-vin/rcar-core.c b/drivers/media/platform/rcar-vin/rcar-core.c index 1d92cc8ede8f8a3e..b58c8bbe1cf33908 100644 --- a/drivers/media/platform/rcar-vin/rcar-core.c +++ b/drivers/media/platform/rcar-vin/rcar-core.c @@ -349,12 +349,10 @@ static int rvin_group_parse_of(struct rvin_dev *vin, unsigned int port, static void rvin_group_notifier_cleanup(struct rvin_dev *vin) { - mutex_lock(&vin->group->lock); if (&vin->v4l2_dev == vin->group->notifier.v4l2_dev) { v4l2_async_nf_unregister(&vin->group->notifier); v4l2_async_nf_cleanup(&vin->group->notifier); } - mutex_unlock(&vin->group->lock); } static int rvin_group_notifier_init(struct rvin_dev *vin, unsigned int port, -- 2.34.1