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From: Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@chromium.org>
To: Doug Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Cc: Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>,
	Benson Leung <bleung@chromium.org>,
	Enric Balletbo i Serra <enric.balletbo@collabora.com>,
	Alexandru M Stan <amstan@chromium.org>,
	"open list:ARM/Rockchip SoC..."
	<linux-rockchip@lists.infradead.org>,
	Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>,
	Guenter Roeck <groeck@chromium.org>,
	Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>,
	Ryan Case <ryandcase@chromium.org>,
	Randall Spangler <rspangler@chromium.org>,
	Heiko Stuebner <heiko@sntech.de>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] platform/chrome: cros_ec_spi: Transfer messages at high priority
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2019 11:30:10 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190403183010.GR112750@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAD=FV=UC6MpTgmir+nwUy4hWk8Vvz97M5G45=-r5JAg_=z6vQQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Apr 03, 2019 at 11:17:27AM -0700, Doug Anderson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, Apr 3, 2019 at 11:14 AM Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@chromium.org> wrote:
> > Each transfer has it's own work struct (allocated on the stack), hence
> > a) does not occur. b) is still true, but shouldn't be a problem on
> > its own.
> 
> Actually, it could be much worse _because_ it's on the stack.  The
> worker could write something back to the work after the work has been
> de-allocated.  That's bad.

Sure, I said "not a problem on its own."
                            ~~~~~~~~~~

The worker is owned by this driver and supposedly we know what we are
doing. Changing a member in the struct after calling complete() would
likely be a bug anyway (though not necessarily a fatal one).

  reply	other threads:[~2019-04-03 18:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-04-03 16:05 [PATCH v2] platform/chrome: cros_ec_spi: Transfer messages at high priority Douglas Anderson
2019-04-03 17:04 ` Brian Norris
2019-04-03 17:49   ` Doug Anderson
     [not found]     ` <CAD=FV=UZCUp=Tq4DhKGJQm7bPvvM1Q=EUovWeBdoHVvQeu4eUA-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2019-04-03 17:55       ` Brian Norris
2019-04-03 17:55         ` Brian Norris
2019-04-03 18:14   ` Matthias Kaehlcke
2019-04-03 18:17     ` Doug Anderson
2019-04-03 18:30       ` Matthias Kaehlcke [this message]
2019-04-03 18:39         ` Brian Norris

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