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V4L/DVB (11875): dvb_frontend: fix case where fepriv->exit not reset

The fact that we now explicitly set fepriv->exit = 1 when the thread is
shutting down exposed an edge case where it was not being reset back to zero
once the thread went away in some cases. This resulted in failures in cases
where the frontend was closed, and then opened O_RDONLY, since in that case
the thread is not being restarted but it was checking the fepriv->exit flag.

Thanks to Thierry Lelegard, who and encountered and debugged a large portion
of the issue in the same twelve hours that I did (as well as testing my patch).

Cc: Thierry Lelegard <thierry.lelegard@tv-numeric.com>
Signed-off-by: Devin Heitmueller <dheitmueller@kernellabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>

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Devin Heitmueller and committed by
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
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drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvb_frontend.c
··· 657 657 } 658 658 659 659 fepriv->thread = NULL; 660 + fepriv->exit = 0; 660 661 mb(); 661 662 662 663 dvb_frontend_wakeup(fe);