Re: [RFC PATCH] spi: Take the SPI IO-mutex in the spi_setup() method

[Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 17 Nov 2020 12:45:17 +0300, Serge Semin wrote:
> I've discovered that due to the recent commit 49d7d695ca4b ("spi: dw:
> Explicitly de-assert CS on SPI transfer completion") a concurrent usage of
> the spidev devices with different chip-selects causes the "SPI transfer
> timed out" error. The root cause of the problem has turned to be in a race
> condition of the SPI-transfer execution procedure and the spi_setup()
> method being called at the same time. In particular in calling the
> spi_set_cs(false) while there is an SPI-transfer being executed. In my
> case due to the commit cited above all CSs get to be switched off by
> calling the spi_setup() for /dev/spidev0.1 while there is an concurrent
> SPI-transfer execution performed on /dev/spidev0.0. Of course a situation
> of the spi_setup() being called while there is an SPI-transfer being
> executed for two different SPI peripheral devices of the same controller
> may happen not only for the spidev driver, but for instance for MMC SPI +
> some another device, or spi_setup() being called from an SPI-peripheral
> probe method while some other device has already been probed and is being
> used by a corresponding driver...
> 
> [...]

Applied to

   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/spi.git for-next

Thanks!

[1/1] spi: Take the SPI IO-mutex in the spi_setup() method
      commit: 4fae3a58ab59d8a286864d61fe1846283a0316f2

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Thanks,
Mark