This patchset refine some spinlocks which I think not used properly. Maybe my 'refine' make the code broken, so any comments will be appreciated. patch1: The function 'usbip_event_add()' may be called in interrupt context on the stub side: 'stub_complete'->'stub_enqueue_ret_unlink'->'usbip_event_add'. In this function it tries to get the lock 'ud->lock', so we shoud disable irq when we get this lock in process context. patch2: On the client side, we have a virtual hcd driver so there actually no hardware interrupts. Maybe to achieve a good performance there is no need to use the interrupt safe spinlock. Just replace them with a non interrupt safe version. Harvey Yang (2): staging: usbip: use interrupt safe spinlock to avoid potential deadlock. staging: usbip: replace the interrupt safe spinlock because no hardware interrupt exists. drivers/staging/usbip/stub_dev.c | 34 ++++++++-------- drivers/staging/usbip/stub_rx.c | 4 +- drivers/staging/usbip/usbip_event.c | 6 ++- drivers/staging/usbip/vhci_hcd.c | 75 +++++++++++++++-------------------- drivers/staging/usbip/vhci_rx.c | 10 ++--- drivers/staging/usbip/vhci_tx.c | 14 +++---- 6 files changed, 65 insertions(+), 78 deletions(-) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html