From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] net: xilinx_emaclite: recheck condition after timeout in mdio_wait() Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2018 11:25:28 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20181030.112528.308459967263600648.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20181030093139.10226-1-kurt@linutronix.de> <20181030093139.10226-3-kurt@linutronix.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: anirudh@xilinx.com, John.Linn@xilinx.com, michal.simek@xilinx.com, radhey.shyam.pandey@xilinx.com, andrew@lunn.ch, yuehaibing@huawei.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: kurt@linutronix.de Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20181030093139.10226-3-kurt@linutronix.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org From: Kurt Kanzenbach Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2018 10:31:39 +0100 > The function could report a false positive if it gets preempted between reading > the XEL_MDIOCTRL_OFFSET register and checking for the timeout. In such a case, > the condition has to be rechecked to avoid false positives. > > Therefore, check for expected condition even after the timeout occurred. > > Signed-off-by: Kurt Kanzenbach Same objections as your previous patch. This isn't fixing anything.