From: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
To: Scott Branden <scott.branden@broadcom.com>
Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
David Brown <david.brown@linaro.org>,
Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>,
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Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
"Rafael J . Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>,
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BCM Kernel Feedback <bcm-kernel-feedback-list@broadcom.com>,
Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
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Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/7] test_firmware: add partial read support for request_firmware_into_buf
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2020 19:11:12 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200225191112.GX11244@42.do-not-panic.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4a666590-461d-17f9-5580-31a41869383f@broadcom.com>
On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 05:13:08PM -0800, Scott Branden wrote:
> > > > +static ssize_t test_dev_config_show_size_t(char *buf, int cfg)
> > > > +{
> > > > + size_t val;
> > > > +
> > > > + mutex_lock(&test_fw_mutex);
> > > > + val = cfg;
> > > > + mutex_unlock(&test_fw_mutex);
> > > Both val and cfg are stack variables so there is no need for locking.
> > > Probably you meant to pass a pointer to cfg?
> I am following the existing code as was done for
> test_dev_config_show_bool(),
> test_dev_config_show_int(),
> test_dev_config_show_u8()
>
> Mutex probably not needed but I don't think I need to deviate from the rest
> of the test code.
>
> Luis, could you please explain what the rest of your code is doing?
The lock is indeed not needed in the functions you mentioned, so you can
also remove the other locks as a precursor patch. It would be a seperate
patch.
Luis
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-02-25 19:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-02-20 0:48 [PATCH v2 0/7] firmware: add partial read support in request_firmware_into_buf Scott Branden
2020-02-20 0:48 ` [PATCH v2 1/7] fs: introduce kernel_pread_file* support Scott Branden
2020-02-20 0:48 ` [PATCH v2 2/7] firmware: add offset to request_firmware_into_buf Scott Branden
2020-02-20 1:22 ` Luis Chamberlain
2020-02-21 0:14 ` Scott Branden
2020-02-20 0:48 ` [PATCH v2 3/7] test_firmware: add partial read support for request_firmware_into_buf Scott Branden
2020-02-20 8:42 ` Dan Carpenter
2020-02-21 18:30 ` Scott Branden
2020-02-22 1:13 ` Scott Branden
2020-02-24 8:08 ` Dan Carpenter
2020-02-25 19:11 ` Luis Chamberlain [this message]
2020-02-20 0:48 ` [PATCH v2 4/7] firmware: test partial file reads of request_firmware_into_buf Scott Branden
2020-02-20 0:48 ` [PATCH v2 5/7] bcm-vk: add bcm_vk UAPI Scott Branden
2020-02-20 7:50 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-02-21 1:15 ` Scott Branden
2020-02-21 8:34 ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-02-21 18:27 ` Scott Branden
2020-02-21 9:22 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-02-20 0:48 ` [PATCH v2 7/7] MAINTAINERS: bcm-vk: add maintainer for Broadcom VK Driver Scott Branden
[not found] ` <20200220004825.23372-7-scott.branden@broadcom.com>
2020-02-20 1:04 ` [PATCH v2 6/7] misc: bcm-vk: add Broadcom VK driver Randy Dunlap
2020-02-21 0:06 ` Scott Branden
2020-02-21 0:21 ` Randy Dunlap
2020-02-20 7:47 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-02-21 18:19 ` Scott Branden
2020-02-22 8:02 ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-02-23 10:00 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-02-23 23:55 ` Olof Johansson
2020-02-25 22:37 ` Scott Branden
2020-02-22 16:44 ` kbuild test robot
2020-02-22 16:44 ` [RFC PATCH] misc: bcm-vk: image_tab[] can be static kbuild test robot
[not found] ` <20200220104321.GX7838@kadam>
[not found] ` <63c9dcda-7a31-78a7-1d11-9d9af38add46@broadcom.com>
2020-04-18 11:45 ` [PATCH v2 6/7] misc: bcm-vk: add Broadcom VK driver Dan Carpenter
2020-04-18 11:47 ` Dan Carpenter
2020-04-18 17:25 ` Scott Branden
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