Since altera_uart_interrupt() may also be called from a poll timer in "serving_softirq" context, use spin_[lock_irqsave|unlock_irqrestore] variants, which are appropriate for both softirq and hardware interrupt contexts. Fixes: 2f8b9c15cd88 ("altera_uart: Add support for polling mode (IRQ-less)") Signed-off-by: Gabriel Somlo <gsomlo@xxxxxxxxx> --- I used this driver as a sorce of inspiration for adding IRQ support to the LiteX LiteUART, and this topic came up during review. So I thought it might be helpful to fix it here as well! drivers/tty/serial/altera_uart.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/altera_uart.c b/drivers/tty/serial/altera_uart.c index 316074bb23e9..9ce3d24af536 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/serial/altera_uart.c +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/altera_uart.c @@ -259,16 +259,17 @@ static irqreturn_t altera_uart_interrupt(int irq, void *data) { struct uart_port *port = data; struct altera_uart *pp = container_of(port, struct altera_uart, port); + unsigned long flags; unsigned int isr; isr = altera_uart_readl(port, ALTERA_UART_STATUS_REG) & pp->imr; - spin_lock(&port->lock); + spin_lock_irqsave(&port->lock, flags); if (isr & ALTERA_UART_STATUS_RRDY_MSK) altera_uart_rx_chars(port); if (isr & ALTERA_UART_STATUS_TRDY_MSK) altera_uart_tx_chars(port); - spin_unlock(&port->lock); + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&port->lock, flags); return IRQ_RETVAL(isr); } -- 2.38.1