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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>
Signed-off-by: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Eric Miao 2011-12-23 05:39:27 +08:00 committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
parent 01f56abd08
commit 995234da19
1 changed files with 2 additions and 2 deletions
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@ -932,6 +932,8 @@ 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.
*/
@ -962,8 +964,6 @@ 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.
*/