From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Message-ID: <52F5234B.404@att.net> Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2014 12:17:47 -0600 From: Daniel Santos Reply-To: Daniel Santos MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Luis Henriques , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com CC: Daniel Santos , Mark Brown Subject: Re: [PATCH 3.5 36/88] spidev: fix hang when transfer_one_message fails References: <1391772205-22239-1-git-send-email-luis.henriques@canonical.com> <1391772205-22239-37-git-send-email-luis.henriques@canonical.com> In-Reply-To: <1391772205-22239-37-git-send-email-luis.henriques@canonical.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 02/07/2014 05:22 AM, Luis Henriques wrote: > 3.5.7.30 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. > > ------------------ > > From: Daniel Santos > > commit e120cc0dcf2880a4c5c0a6cb27b655600a1cfa1d upstream. > > This corrects a problem in spi_pump_messages() that leads to an spi > message hanging forever when a call to transfer_one_message() fails. > This failure occurs in my MCP2210 driver when the cs_change bit is set > on the last transfer in a message, an operation which the hardware does > not support. > > Rationale > Since the transfer_one_message() returns an int, we must presume that it > may fail. If transfer_one_message() should never fail, it should return > void. Thus, calls to transfer_one_message() should properly manage a > failure. > > Fixes: ffbbdd21329f3 (spi: create a message queueing infrastructure) > Signed-off-by: Daniel Santos > Signed-off-by: Mark Brown > Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques > --- > drivers/spi/spi.c | 4 +++- > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/spi/spi.c b/drivers/spi/spi.c > index 1041cb8..40f528b 100644 > --- a/drivers/spi/spi.c > +++ b/drivers/spi/spi.c > @@ -574,7 +574,9 @@ static void spi_pump_messages(struct kthread_work *work) > ret = master->transfer_one_message(master, master->cur_msg); > if (ret) { > dev_err(&master->dev, > - "failed to transfer one message from queue\n"); > + "failed to transfer one message from queue: %d\n", ret); > + master->cur_msg->status = ret; > + spi_finalize_current_message(master); > return; > } > } This isn't a good patch and is reverted by a later patch. I'm not sure what the protocol for this is, but either skip this patch or include the one that reverts it. Daniel