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Date:   Mon, 16 Jan 2023 14:40:05 +0000
From:   Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
To:     Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org,
        Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@linaro.org>,
        linux-spi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.10 11/17] spi: spidev: fix a race condition
 when accessing spidev->spi
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On Mon, Jan 16, 2023 at 09:04:42AM -0500, Sasha Levin wrote:
> From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@linaro.org>
>=20
> [ Upstream commit a720416d94634068951773cb9e9d6f1b73769e5b ]
>=20
> There's a spinlock in place that is taken in file_operations callbacks
> whenever we check if spidev->spi is still alive (not null). It's also
> taken when spidev->spi is set to NULL in remove().

There are ongoing discussions of race conditions with this commit.

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