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Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2012 09:53:09 -0300
From: Rajiv Andrade <srajiv@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] tpm_tis: fix tis_lock with respect to RCU
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On Wed, 29 Feb 2012, Jiri Kosina wrote:

> cleanup_tis() -> tpm_remove_hardware() -> syncrhonize_rcu() is being 
> called in an atomic context (tis_lock spinlock held), which is not 
> allowed. Convert tis_lock to mutex.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>

Acked-by: Rajiv Andrade <srajiv@linux.vnet.ibm.com>