On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 08:08:37AM +0200, Fabio M. De Francesco wrote: > Remove _enter_critical_mutex() and _exit_critical_mutex(). They are > unnecessary wrappers, respectively to mutex_lock_interruptible and to > mutex_unlock(). They also have an odd interface that takes an unused > second parameter "unsigned long *pirqL". > > Use directly the in-kernel API; check and manage the return value of > mutex_lock_interruptible(). > > Signed-off-by: Fabio M. De Francesco <fmdefrancesco@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_mlme_ext.c | 5 +++-- > drivers/staging/r8188eu/hal/usb_ops_linux.c | 7 +++++-- > drivers/staging/r8188eu/include/osdep_service.h | 13 ------------- > drivers/staging/r8188eu/os_dep/os_intfs.c | 5 +++-- > 4 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_mlme_ext.c b/drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_mlme_ext.c > index f6ee72d5af09..484083468ebb 100644 > --- a/drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_mlme_ext.c > +++ b/drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_mlme_ext.c > @@ -4358,7 +4358,8 @@ s32 dump_mgntframe_and_wait_ack(struct adapter *padapter, struct xmit_frame *pmg > if (padapter->bSurpriseRemoved || padapter->bDriverStopped) > return -1; > > - _enter_critical_mutex(&pxmitpriv->ack_tx_mutex, NULL); > + if (mutex_lock_interruptible(&pxmitpriv->ack_tx_mutex)) > + return -EINTR; But the code never would return this value if the lock function returned an error. Why do that here now? thanks, greg k-h