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authorEric Miao <eric.miao@linaro.org>2011-12-23 05:30:21 +0800
committerEric Miao <eric.miao@linaro.org>2012-01-06 12:11:36 +0800
commit1c7bb81885f56666a4eaf934989c6607120add30 (patch)
treedcaf9482bc5ada6821d82b5082ed1f8b685af28a
parent4f0c43b5a5ef59f7993f8ef25dc96c8aa1366608 (diff)
tty: serial: imx: move del_timer_sync() to avoid potential deadlock
del_timer_sync() acquires its own lock and doesn't have to be nested within the spinlock of sport->port.lock in imx_set_termios(), which will cause potential deadlock. Fix this by moving it outside. Cc: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@freescale.com> Cc: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@linaro.org> Cc: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Eric Miao <eric.miao@linaro.org>
-rw-r--r--drivers/tty/serial/imx.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/imx.c b/drivers/tty/serial/imx.c
index 163fc9021f5..e018aef88df 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/imx.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/imx.c
@@ -901,6 +901,8 @@ imx_set_termios(struct uart_port *port, struct ktermios *termios,
ucr2 |= UCR2_PROE;
}
+ del_timer_sync(&sport->timer);
+
/*
* Ask the core to calculate the divisor for us.
*/
@@ -931,8 +933,6 @@ imx_set_termios(struct uart_port *port, struct ktermios *termios,
sport->port.ignore_status_mask |= URXD_OVRRUN;
}
- del_timer_sync(&sport->timer);
-
/*
* Update the per-port timeout.
*/