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From: Anatolij Gustschin <agust@denx.de>
To: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@freescale.com>
Cc: Javier Martin <javier.martin@vista-silicon.com>,
	linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org, viresh.linux@gmail.com,
	g.liakhovetski@gmx.de, vinod.koul@linux.intel.com,
	s.hauer@pengutronix.de, cjb@laptop.org, gcembed@gmail.com,
	festevam@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] mmc: mxcmmc: fix bug that may block a data transfer forever.
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 20:58:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130314205857.7b0ad091@crub> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5126421D.7010204@freescale.com>

Hi Fabio,

On Thu, 21 Feb 2013 12:49:49 -0300
Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@freescale.com> wrote:

> Hi Anatolij,
> 
> Anatolij Gustschin wrote:
> 
> > this change introduces a race condition for host->req (and maybe
> > for host->data) accesses. The callback is running in soft-irq context and can
> > be interrupted by the mxcmci_irq() interrupt which can finish the request and
> > set host->req to NULL. Then mxcmci_data_done() crashes with a null pointer
> > dereference. How extensively was it tested?
> 
> Does the patch below help?

Sorry for long delay. No, it doesn't help. With this patch applied
the task copying data to the sd-card hangs forever. I used following
patch to fix observed crashes:

 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.mmc/19658/focus=19662

Thanks anyway!

Anatolij

      reply	other threads:[~2013-03-14 19:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-07 10:43 [PATCH v2] mmc: mxcmmc: fix bug that may block a data transfer forever Javier Martin
2012-09-10  7:47 ` Sascha Hauer
2012-09-19  5:52   ` Chris Ball
2012-09-14  2:52 ` Vinod Koul
2012-09-14 12:50   ` javier Martin
2013-02-19 14:14 ` Anatolij Gustschin
2013-02-21 12:32   ` javier Martin
2013-02-21 12:57     ` Anatolij Gustschin
2013-02-21 15:49   ` Fabio Estevam
2013-03-14 19:58     ` Anatolij Gustschin [this message]

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