From: Stefano Brivio <[email protected]>
Caller needs to acquire the lock. Called functions will not.
Fixes: 09f79fd49d94 ("i40e: avoid NVM acquire deadlock during NVM update")
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Andrew Bowers <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <[email protected]>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_nvm.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_nvm.c
b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_nvm.c
index 57505b1df98d..d591b3e6bd7c 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_nvm.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_nvm.c
@@ -298,7 +298,7 @@ static i40e_status i40e_read_nvm_word_aq(struct i40e_hw
*hw, u16 offset,
}
/**
- * __i40e_read_nvm_word - Reads nvm word, assumes called does the locking
+ * __i40e_read_nvm_word - Reads nvm word, assumes caller does the locking
* @hw: pointer to the HW structure
* @offset: offset of the Shadow RAM word to read (0x000000 - 0x001FFF)
* @data: word read from the Shadow RAM
--
2.14.2
