From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
To: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com>,
Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
Gregory Clement <gregory.clement@free-electrons.com>,
Jason Cooper <jason@lakedaemon.net>, Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>,
Sebastian Hesselbarth <sebastian.hesselbarth@gmail.com>,
dmaengine@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org,
Lior Amsalem <alior@marvell.com>,
Thomas Petazzoni <thomas@free-electrons.com>,
Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/8] dmaengine: mv_xor: bug fix for racing condition in descriptors cleanup
Date: Tue, 12 May 2015 17:51:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150512175117.1eaff739@free-electrons.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1431445063-20226-6-git-send-email-maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com>
Maxime,
On Tue, 12 May 2015 17:37:40 +0200, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> From: Lior Amsalem <alior@marvell.com>
>
> This patch fixes a bug in the XOR driver where the cleanup function can be
> called and free descriptors that never been processed by the engine (which
> result in data errors).
>
> The cleanup function will free descriptors based on the ownership bit in
> the descriptors.
>
> Signed-off-by: Lior Amsalem <alior@marvell.com>
> Reviewed-by: Ofer Heifetz <oferh@marvell.com>
> Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com>
If this is fixing a bug, shouldn't it be Cc'ed to stable@ ? But then it
needs to be the first patch in the series.
>From what I remember, this series both fixes some issues *and* adds
RAID6 support. We need to separate out the two things so that the fixes
can be propagated to stable.
Thanks,
Thomas
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-05-12 15:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-05-12 15:37 [PATCH 0/8] ARM: mvebu: Add support for RAID6 PQ offloading Maxime Ripard
2015-05-12 15:37 ` [PATCH 1/8] dmaengine: mv_xor: Rename function for consistent naming Maxime Ripard
2015-05-12 15:37 ` [PATCH 2/8] dmaengine: mv_xor: add support for a38x command in descriptor mode Maxime Ripard
2015-05-12 15:49 ` Arnd Bergmann
2015-05-12 15:54 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2015-05-12 16:03 ` Arnd Bergmann
2015-05-13 8:15 ` Maxime Ripard
2015-05-13 8:46 ` Arnd Bergmann
2015-05-12 15:49 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2015-05-12 15:58 ` Andrew Lunn
2015-05-12 16:05 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2015-05-13 8:23 ` Maxime Ripard
2015-05-12 15:37 ` [PATCH 3/8] dmaengine: mv_xor: Enlarge descriptor pool size Maxime Ripard
2015-05-12 15:37 ` [PATCH 4/8] dmaengine: mv_xor: improve descriptors list handling and reduce locking Maxime Ripard
2015-05-12 15:37 ` [PATCH 5/8] dmaengine: mv_xor: bug fix for racing condition in descriptors cleanup Maxime Ripard
2015-05-12 15:51 ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
2015-05-12 15:37 ` [PATCH 6/8] async_tx: adding mult and sum_product flags Maxime Ripard
2015-05-12 16:05 ` Andrew Lunn
2015-05-13 8:45 ` Maxime Ripard
2015-05-12 15:37 ` [PATCH 7/8] dmaengine: mv_xor: add support for a38x RAID6 support Maxime Ripard
2015-05-12 15:37 ` [PATCH 8/8] ARM: mvebu: a38x: Enable A38x XOR engine features Maxime Ripard
2015-05-12 16:13 ` Andrew Lunn
2015-05-13 7:16 ` Lior Amsalem
2015-05-13 8:33 ` Maxime Ripard
2015-05-12 16:05 ` [PATCH 0/8] ARM: mvebu: Add support for RAID6 PQ offloading Dan Williams
2015-05-13 9:17 ` Maxime Ripard
2015-05-13 16:00 ` Dan Williams
2015-05-18 9:14 ` Maxime Ripard
2015-05-18 17:06 ` Dan Williams
2015-05-26 9:45 ` Maxime Ripard
2015-05-26 16:31 ` Dan Williams
2015-05-27 11:52 ` Boaz Harrosh
2015-06-02 14:41 ` Maxime Ripard
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