Re: [PATCH v2] regulator: core: fix race condition in regulator_put()

[Mark Brown]

On Thu, Jan 08, 2015 at 06:54:25PM +0530, Ashay Jaiswal wrote:
> The regulator framework maintains a list of consumer regulators
> for a regulator device and protects it from concurrent access using
> the regulator device's mutex lock.

Applied, thanks but...

> +     mutex_lock(&rdev->mutex);
>       kfree(regulator->supply_name);
>       list_del(&regulator->list);
>       kfree(regulator);
> 
>       rdev->open_count--;
>       rdev->exclusive = 0;
> +     mutex_unlock(&rdev->mutex);

I'll do a followup which moves the frees out of the locked region
(reordering things a bit) - they're the main bit I was worried about
with time, they should be fast since they're just frees but it's easy
enough to avoid having to think about it.

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