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From: Akhil R <akhilrajeev@nvidia.com>
To: <thierry.reding@gmail.com>
Cc: <andi.shyti@kernel.org>, <jonathanh@nvidia.com>,
	<linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-tegra@vger.kernel.org>,
	<wsa@kernel.org>, <akhilrajeev@nvidia.com>,
	<sdonthineni@nvidia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] i2c: tegra: Fix failure during probe deferral cleanup
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2023 21:12:43 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230720154243.12779-1-akhilrajeev@nvidia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230707132619.2998382-1-thierry.reding@gmail.com>

>If the driver fails to obtain a DMA channel, it will initiate cleanup 
>and try to release the DMA channel that couldn't be retrieved. This 
>will cause a crash because the cleanup will try to dereference an 
>ERR_PTR()- encoded error code.
>
>However, there's nothing to clean up at this point yet, so we can avoid 
>this by simply resetting the DMA channel to NULL instead of storing the 
>error code.
>
>Fixes: fcc8a89a1c83 ("i2c: tegra: Share same DMA channel for RX and 
>TX")
>Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding mailto:treding@nvidia.com

This fixed the crash issue seen when there is no dmas property in
the device tree.

Resending this with the correct headers to get it recorded by
patchwork.

Tested-by: Akhil R <akhilrajeev@nvidia.com>


  reply	other threads:[~2023-07-20 15:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-07-07 13:26 [PATCH v2] i2c: tegra: Fix failure during probe deferral cleanup Thierry Reding
2023-07-20 15:42 ` Akhil R [this message]
2023-07-25 16:25 ` Thierry Reding
2023-07-25 21:34 ` Andi Shyti
2023-07-27 15:05   ` Thierry Reding
2023-07-27 19:57     ` Andi Shyti
2023-08-14 13:34 ` Wolfram Sang
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2023-07-17 17:15 Akhil R
2023-07-17 17:25 ` Shanker Donthineni

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