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viafb: Do not remove gpiochip under spinlock

gpiochip_remove() is not meant to be called with interrupts disabled, and
there is no need for the lock here in any case.

Reported-by: Bruno Prémont <bonbons@linux-vserver.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Jonathan Corbet 15 years ago
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1 changed files with 2 additions and 3 deletions
  1. 2 3
      drivers/video/via/via-gpio.c

+ 2 - 3
drivers/video/via/via-gpio.c

@@ -246,7 +246,6 @@ static int viafb_gpio_remove(struct platform_device *platdev)
 	unsigned long flags;
 	int ret = 0, i;
 
-	spin_lock_irqsave(&gpio_config.vdev->reg_lock, flags);
 	/*
 	 * Get unregistered.
 	 */
@@ -254,16 +253,16 @@ static int viafb_gpio_remove(struct platform_device *platdev)
 		ret = gpiochip_remove(&gpio_config.gpio_chip);
 		if (ret) { /* Somebody still using it? */
 			printk(KERN_ERR "Viafb: GPIO remove failed\n");
-			goto out;
+			return ret;
 		}
 	}
 	/*
 	 * Disable the ports.
 	 */
+	spin_lock_irqsave(&gpio_config.vdev->reg_lock, flags);
 	for (i = 0; i < gpio_config.gpio_chip.ngpio; i += 2)
 		viafb_gpio_disable(gpio_config.active_gpios[i]);
 	gpio_config.gpio_chip.ngpio = 0;
-out:
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&gpio_config.vdev->reg_lock, flags);
 	return ret;
 }