[PATCH] staging: pi433: add rw semaphore fixing concurrency issues
Greg Kroah-Hartman
gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Fri Jun 1 12:09:54 EDT 2018
On Fri, Jun 01, 2018 at 08:50:37AM -0400, Hugo Lefeuvre wrote:
> Add a rw semaphore fixing potential NULL pointer dereferences in the
> pi433 driver.
Unless you can measure the performance difference, do not use a rw
semaphore, just use a normal mutex please. Odds are it will be faster
in the end and take up less space.
So please test, or if you can't test, just use a mutex.
thanks,
greg k-h
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