From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753539AbeCFLsD (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Mar 2018 06:48:03 -0500 Received: from mga09.intel.com ([134.134.136.24]:12543 "EHLO mga09.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750864AbeCFLsB (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Mar 2018 06:48:01 -0500 X-Amp-Result: UNSCANNABLE X-Amp-File-Uploaded: False X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.47,431,1515484800"; d="scan'208";a="22923714" Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2018 17:21:54 +0530 From: Vinod Koul To: Qi Hou Cc: dan.j.williams@intel.com, fmh6jj@gmail.com, fmhess@users.sourceforge.net, jassisinghbrar@gmail.com, rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk, dmaengine@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] dmaengine: pl330: fix a race condition in case of threaded irqs Message-ID: <20180306115153.GS15443@localhost> References: <1520298817-19870-1-git-send-email-qi.hou@windriver.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1520298817-19870-1-git-send-email-qi.hou@windriver.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Mar 06, 2018 at 09:13:37AM +0800, Qi Hou wrote: > When booting up with "threadirqs" in command line, all irq handlers of the DMA > controller pl330 will be threaded forcedly. These threads will race for the same > list, pl330->req_done. > > Before the callback, the spinlock was released. And after it, the spinlock was > taken. This opened an race window where another threaded irq handler could steal > the spinlock and be permitted to delete entries of the list, pl330->req_done. > > If the later deleted an entry that was still referred to by the former, there would > be a kernel panic when the former was scheduled and tried to get the next sibling > of the deleted entry. Applied, thanks -- ~Vinod