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  - comedi: Reinit dev->spinlock between attachments to low-level drivers `struct comedi_device` is the main     controlling structure for a COMEDI device created by the COMEDI subsystem. It contains a member `spinlock`     containing a spin-lock that is initialized by the COMEDI subsystem, but is reserved for use by a low-level     driver attached to the COMEDI device (at least since commit 25436dc9d84f (Staging: comedi: remove RT     code)). Some COMEDI devices (those created on initialization of the COMEDI subsystem when the     comedi.comedi_num_legacy_minors parameter is non-zero) can be attached to different low-level drivers     over their lifetime using the `COMEDI_DEVCONFIG` ioctl command. This can result in inconsistent lock     states being reported when there is a mismatch in the spin-lock locking levels used by each low-level     driver to which the COMEDI device has been attached. Fix it by reinitializing `dev->spinlock` before     calling the low-level driver's `attach` function pointer if `CONFIG_LOCKDEP` is enabled. (CVE-2026-43340)

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