commit 8cbf811dfd027bde8504e541d0009c5722b98be5
author Jeffrey Carlyle <jeff.carlyle@motorola.com> Fri Oct 08 14:49:19 2010 -0500
committer Liam Girdwood <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk> Thu Oct 28 22:40:31 2010 +0100
tree 0f7190a0c3680485ad7893a36d37967ae8f3c526
parent 688fe99a439f7c9dfcc52fbf7cb347f140a2dc8b

regulator: avoid deadlock when disabling regulator with supply

I have a regulator A that sets regulator B as its supply. When I call
set_supply to add B as the supply for A, regulator A gets added to the
supply_list for regulator B.

When I call regulator_disable(A), I end up with a call chain like this:

regulator_disable(A)
> mutex_lock(A)
> _regulator_disable(A)
>> _regulator_disable(B)
>>> _notifier_call_chain(B)
>>>> mutex_lock(A)

Which results in dead lock since we are trying to acquire the mutex lock
for regulator A which we already hold.

This patch addresses this issue by moving the call to disable regulator
B outside of the lock aquired inside the initial call to
regulator_disable.

This change also addresses the issue of not acquiring the mutex for
regulator B before calling _regulator_disable(B).

Signed-off-by: Jeffrey Carlyle <jeff.carlyle@motorola.com>
Acked-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Signed-off-by: Liam Girdwood <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk>

drivers/regulator/core.c

diff --git a/drivers/regulator/core.c b/drivers/regulator/core.c
index 4fa08c8..f1d10c9 100644
--- a/drivers/regulator/core.c
+++ b/drivers/regulator/core.c
@@ -64,7 +64,8 @@
 };
 
 static int _regulator_is_enabled(struct regulator_dev *rdev);
-static int _regulator_disable(struct regulator_dev *rdev);
+static int _regulator_disable(struct regulator_dev *rdev,
+		struct regulator_dev **supply_rdev_ptr);
 static int _regulator_get_voltage(struct regulator_dev *rdev);
 static int _regulator_get_current_limit(struct regulator_dev *rdev);
 static unsigned int _regulator_get_mode(struct regulator_dev *rdev);
@@ -1354,7 +1355,8 @@
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(regulator_enable);
 
 /* locks held by regulator_disable() */
-static int _regulator_disable(struct regulator_dev *rdev)
+static int _regulator_disable(struct regulator_dev *rdev,
+		struct regulator_dev **supply_rdev_ptr)
 {
 	int ret = 0;
 
@@ -1382,8 +1384,7 @@
 		}
 
 		/* decrease our supplies ref count and disable if required */
-		if (rdev->supply)
-			_regulator_disable(rdev->supply);
+		*supply_rdev_ptr = rdev->supply;
 
 		rdev->use_count = 0;
 	} else if (rdev->use_count > 1) {
@@ -1413,17 +1414,29 @@
 int regulator_disable(struct regulator *regulator)
 {
 	struct regulator_dev *rdev = regulator->rdev;
+	struct regulator_dev *supply_rdev = NULL;
 	int ret = 0;
 
 	mutex_lock(&rdev->mutex);
-	ret = _regulator_disable(rdev);
+	ret = _regulator_disable(rdev, &supply_rdev);
 	mutex_unlock(&rdev->mutex);
+
+	/* decrease our supplies ref count and disable if required */
+	while (supply_rdev != NULL) {
+		rdev = supply_rdev;
+
+		mutex_lock(&rdev->mutex);
+		_regulator_disable(rdev, &supply_rdev);
+		mutex_unlock(&rdev->mutex);
+	}
+
 	return ret;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(regulator_disable);
 
 /* locks held by regulator_force_disable() */
-static int _regulator_force_disable(struct regulator_dev *rdev)
+static int _regulator_force_disable(struct regulator_dev *rdev,
+		struct regulator_dev **supply_rdev_ptr)
 {
 	int ret = 0;
 
@@ -1442,8 +1455,7 @@
 	}
 
 	/* decrease our supplies ref count and disable if required */
-	if (rdev->supply)
-		_regulator_disable(rdev->supply);
+	*supply_rdev_ptr = rdev->supply;
 
 	rdev->use_count = 0;
 	return ret;
@@ -1460,12 +1472,17 @@
  */
 int regulator_force_disable(struct regulator *regulator)
 {
+	struct regulator_dev *supply_rdev = NULL;
 	int ret;
 
 	mutex_lock(&regulator->rdev->mutex);
 	regulator->uA_load = 0;
-	ret = _regulator_force_disable(regulator->rdev);
+	ret = _regulator_force_disable(regulator->rdev, &supply_rdev);
 	mutex_unlock(&regulator->rdev->mutex);
+
+	if (supply_rdev)
+		regulator_disable(get_device_regulator(rdev_get_dev(supply_rdev)));
+
 	return ret;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(regulator_force_disable);