Re: [PATCH] i2c: Re-instate body of i2c_parent_is_i2c_adapter()

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On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 02:29:04PM -0700, Stephen Warren wrote:
> From: Stephen Warren <swarren@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> The body of i2c_parent_is_i2c_adapter() is currently guarded by
> CONFIG_I2C_MUX instead.

This paragraph sounds strange to me. I'll update it a little. After that
I'll go looking for a brown paper bag...

> Among potentially other problems, this resulted in i2c_lock_adapter()
> only locking I2C mux child adapters, and not the parent adapter. In
> turn, this could allow inter-mingling of mux child selection and I2C
> transactions, which could result in I2C transactions being directed to
> the wrong I2C bus, and possibly even switching between busses in the
> middle of a transaction.
> 
> One concrete issue caused by this bug was corrupted HDMI EDID reads
> during boot on the NVIDIA Tegra Seaboard system, although this only
> became apparent in recent linux-next, when the boot timing was changed
> just enough to trigger the race condition.
> 
> Fixes: 3923172b3d70 ("i2c: reduce parent checking to a NOOP in non-I2C_MUX case")
> Cc: Phil Carmody <phil.carmody@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@xxxxxxxxxx>

Applied to for-current, thanks for catching this one!

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