Commit 78718e5d authored by Brandon Philips's avatar Brandon Philips Committed by Mauro Carvalho Chehab

V4L/DVB (7492): vivi: Simplify the vivi driver and avoid deadlocks

vivi previously had a very complex queuing system and held spinlocks while
doing copy_to_user, kmalloc, etc.  This caused the driver to easily deadlock
when a multi-threaded application used it and revealed bugs in videobuf too.

This replaces the copy_to_user with memcpy since we were never copying to user
space addresses.  And makes the kmalloc atomic.
Signed-off-by: default avatarBrandon Philips <bphilips@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
parent aa9dbac4
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