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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@gmx.de>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <m.chehab@samsung.com>,
	linux-media@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] [media] mx3-camera: locking typo in mx3_videobuf_queue()
Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2013 10:06:50 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130824070650.GA19256@mwanda> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.1308232313220.14796@axis700.grange>

On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 11:16:51PM +0200, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
> Hi Dan,
> 
> On Fri, 23 Aug 2013, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> 
> > There is a return in the middle where we haven't restored the IRQs to
> > their original state.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/media/platform/soc_camera/mx3_camera.c b/drivers/media/platform/soc_camera/mx3_camera.c
> > index 1047e3e..4bae910 100644
> > --- a/drivers/media/platform/soc_camera/mx3_camera.c
> > +++ b/drivers/media/platform/soc_camera/mx3_camera.c
> > @@ -334,7 +334,7 @@ static void mx3_videobuf_queue(struct vb2_buffer *vb)
> >  	if (!mx3_cam->active)
> >  		mx3_cam->active = buf;
> >  
> > -	spin_unlock_irq(&mx3_cam->lock);
> > +	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&mx3_cam->lock, flags);
> >  
> >  	cookie = txd->tx_submit(txd);
> >  	dev_dbg(icd->parent, "Submitted cookie %d DMA 0x%08x\n",
> 
> Please, wait with this. The above doesn't seem quite right to me. IIRC, 
> the purpose of unlock_irq(), i.e. of the unconditionally enabling IRQs was 
> to make sure ->tx_submit() is called with interrupts enabled. I'm 
> currently on holiday with very scarce internet access. Either please 
> double-check this yourself or I'll have another look at it when back home 
> next week.
> 

No problem.   This is static checker stuff.  The currect code is
definitely wrong because the return in the middle.  When the
function returns we don't know if IRQs are enabled or not.

> > @@ -343,7 +343,7 @@ static void mx3_videobuf_queue(struct vb2_buffer *vb)
> >  	if (cookie >= 0)
> >  		return;
            ^^^^^^^^^^^
> >  
> > -	spin_lock_irq(&mx3_cam->lock);
> > +	spin_lock_irqsave(&mx3_cam->lock, flags);

I thought about using local_irq_restore(flags) but it seemed like
an obvious oversight.

regards,
dan carpenter


  reply	other threads:[~2013-08-24  7:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-23  9:45 [patch] [media] mx3-camera: locking typo in mx3_videobuf_queue() Dan Carpenter
2013-08-23 21:16 ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2013-08-24  7:06   ` Dan Carpenter [this message]
2013-08-28  7:50     ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2013-08-29  8:23       ` [patch v2] [media] mx3-camera: locking cleanup " Dan Carpenter

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