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[media] cx88: fix locking of sub-driver operations

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The BKL conversion of this driver seems to have gone wrong.
Loading the cx88-blackbird driver deadlocks.

The cause: mpeg_ops::open in the cx2388x blackbird driver acquires the
device lock and calls the sub-driver's request_acquire, which tries to
acquire the lock again.  Fix it by clarifying the semantics of
request_acquire, request_release, advise_acquire, and advise_release:
now all will rely on the caller to acquire the device lock.

Based on work by Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>.

Fixes: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31962

Reported-by: Andi Huber <hobrom@gmx.at>
Tested-by: Andi Huber <hobrom@gmx.at>
Tested-by: Marlon de Boer <marlon@hyves.nl>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
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Jonathan Nieder 2011-05-01 06:29:37 -03:00 • committed by Mauro Carvalho Chehab
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