all, On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 11:22:28PM +0100, Adrien Schildknecht wrote: > acpi_video_handles_brightness_key_presses() may use an uninitialized mutex. > The error has been reported by lockdep: DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ON(l->magic != l). > The function assumes that the video driver has been registered before being > called. As explained in the comment of acpi_video_init(), the registration > of the video class may be defered and thus may not take place in the init > function of the module. > > Use completion mechanisms to make sure that > acpi_video_handles_brightness_key_presses() wait for the completion of > acpi_video_register() before using the mutex. > Also get rid of register_count since task completion can replace it. > > Signed-off-by: Adrien Schildknecht <adrien+...@schischi.me> > --- > drivers/acpi/acpi_video.c | 27 ++++++++++++++------------- > 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) > [...]
This patch does fix the problem I was having [1]. Thanks for the fix. [1]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/1/4/791 Tested-by: Jeremiah Mahler <jmmah...@gmail.com> -- - Jeremiah Mahler -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
