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
next prev parent 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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