This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled leds: lp5521/5523: Remove duplicate mutex to the 3.12-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: leds-lp5521-5523-remove-duplicate-mutex.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.12 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From e70988d1aaf73221355e06125c9937bd4b27761c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Milo Kim <milo.kim@xxxxxx> Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2013 17:21:44 -0800 Subject: leds: lp5521/5523: Remove duplicate mutex MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: Milo Kim <milo.kim@xxxxxx> commit e70988d1aaf73221355e06125c9937bd4b27761c upstream. It can be a problem when a pattern is loaded via the firmware interface. LP55xx common driver has already locked the mutex in 'lp55xx_firmware_loaded()'. So it should be deleted. On the other hand, locks are required in store_engine_load() on updating program memory. Reported-by: Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@xxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Milo Kim <milo.kim@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <cooloney@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/leds/leds-lp5521.c | 12 ++++-------- drivers/leds/leds-lp5523.c | 12 ++++-------- 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/leds/leds-lp5521.c +++ b/drivers/leds/leds-lp5521.c @@ -244,18 +244,12 @@ static int lp5521_update_program_memory( if (i % 2) goto err; - mutex_lock(&chip->lock); - for (i = 0; i < LP5521_PROGRAM_LENGTH; i++) { ret = lp55xx_write(chip, addr[idx] + i, pattern[i]); - if (ret) { - mutex_unlock(&chip->lock); + if (ret) return -EINVAL; - } } - mutex_unlock(&chip->lock); - return size; err: @@ -427,15 +421,17 @@ static ssize_t store_engine_load(struct { struct lp55xx_led *led = i2c_get_clientdata(to_i2c_client(dev)); struct lp55xx_chip *chip = led->chip; + int ret; mutex_lock(&chip->lock); chip->engine_idx = nr; lp5521_load_engine(chip); + ret = lp5521_update_program_memory(chip, buf, len); mutex_unlock(&chip->lock); - return lp5521_update_program_memory(chip, buf, len); + return ret; } store_load(1) store_load(2) --- a/drivers/leds/leds-lp5523.c +++ b/drivers/leds/leds-lp5523.c @@ -336,18 +336,12 @@ static int lp5523_update_program_memory( if (i % 2) goto err; - mutex_lock(&chip->lock); - for (i = 0; i < LP5523_PROGRAM_LENGTH; i++) { ret = lp55xx_write(chip, LP5523_REG_PROG_MEM + i, pattern[i]); - if (ret) { - mutex_unlock(&chip->lock); + if (ret) return -EINVAL; - } } - mutex_unlock(&chip->lock); - return size; err: @@ -547,15 +541,17 @@ static ssize_t store_engine_load(struct { struct lp55xx_led *led = i2c_get_clientdata(to_i2c_client(dev)); struct lp55xx_chip *chip = led->chip; + int ret; mutex_lock(&chip->lock); chip->engine_idx = nr; lp5523_load_engine_and_select_page(chip); + ret = lp5523_update_program_memory(chip, buf, len); mutex_unlock(&chip->lock); - return lp5523_update_program_memory(chip, buf, len); + return ret; } store_load(1) store_load(2) Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from milo.kim@xxxxxx are queue-3.12/leds-lp5521-5523-remove-duplicate-mutex.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html