On Sat, Oct 03, 2015 at 02:57:29PM +0530, Chandra S Gorentla wrote:
> The spin_lock_irqsave is moved to just beginning of critical section.
> This change moves a couple of return statements out of the lock.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chandra S Gorentla <csgoren...@gmail.com>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/wilc1000/wilc_msgqueue.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/wilc1000/wilc_msgqueue.c 
> b/drivers/staging/wilc1000/wilc_msgqueue.c
> index d5ebd6d..284a3f5 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/wilc1000/wilc_msgqueue.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/wilc1000/wilc_msgqueue.c
> @@ -72,8 +72,6 @@ int wilc_mq_send(WILC_MsgQueueHandle *pHandle,
>               goto ERRORHANDLER;
>       }
>  
> -     spin_lock_irqsave(&pHandle->strCriticalSection, flags);
> -
>       /* construct a new message */
>       pstrMessage = kmalloc(sizeof(Message), GFP_ATOMIC);

As you have moved the lock, can you also change this to GFP_KERNEL as
well because we do not have a lock held?

And how have you tested that this is ok?  What is this lock trying to
protect?

thanks,

greg k-h
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