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From: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@iki.fi>
To: Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com>
Cc: H Hartley Sweeten <hartleys@visionengravers.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"dan.j.williams@intel.com" <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
	"rmallon@gmail.com" <rmallon@gmail.com>,
	Rafal Prylowski <prylowski@metasoft.pl>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] dma/ep93xx_dma: prevent ep93xx_dma_tasklet() to access empty list
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2011 07:47:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111124054731.GB2621@mwesterb-mobl.ger.corp.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1322046034.1516.254.camel@vkoul-udesk3>

On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 04:30:34PM +0530, Vinod Koul wrote:
> 
> will you still hit the problem if you do a proper check in tasklet for 
> a) if list is empty
> b) if _get_active_desc() returns valid desc
> and the _get_active_desc() returns NULL on not finding active desc

No, with the above the problem goes away.

> The point is by adding a flag you are avoiding the condition hence it is
> working for you whereas on other approach you exit gracefully without
> crashing in all the cases (including potentially uncovered ones)

Ok I see.

I'll prepare a new version where ep93xx_dma_get_active() returns NULL in case
of empty active list, and handle it properly in callers.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-11-24  5:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-22 19:45 [PATCH 1/2] dma/ep93xx_dma: fix initialization of M2M control register Mika Westerberg
2011-11-22 19:45 ` [PATCH 2/2] dma/ep93xx_dma: prevent ep93xx_dma_tasklet() to access empty list Mika Westerberg
2011-11-22 20:26   ` H Hartley Sweeten
2011-11-23  5:12     ` Mika Westerberg
2011-11-23 11:00     ` Vinod Koul
2011-11-24  5:47       ` Mika Westerberg [this message]
2011-11-22 20:16 ` [PATCH 1/2] dma/ep93xx_dma: fix initialization of M2M control register H Hartley Sweeten
2011-11-23  9:05 ` Rafal Prylowski

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