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From: "Aiqun(Maria) Yu" <quic_aiquny@quicinc.com>
To: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Cc: <linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	<kernel@quicinc.com>, <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pinctrl: avoid reload of p state in interation
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2023 08:56:35 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <94de6d83-d181-4a04-875a-377fb5e10b25@quicinc.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACRpkdYgyASV6ttW=AeAWSh3oiFDk9_Q1WV00=7yTxtuhpdXEg@mail.gmail.com>

On 11/14/2023 9:21 PM, Linus Walleij wrote:
> Hi Maria,
> 
> thanks for your patch!
> 
> On Tue, Nov 14, 2023 at 9:54 AM Maria Yu <quic_aiquny@quicinc.com> wrote:
> 
>> When in the list_for_each_entry interation, reload of p->state->settings
>> with a local setting from old_state will makes the list interation in a
>> infite loop.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Maria Yu <quic_aiquny@quicinc.com>
> 
> This makes sense in a way, since this is a compiler-dependent problem,
> can you state in the commit message which compiler and architecture
> you see this on?
I have a crash dump which caused by this issue which is using Clang 
10.0, arm64, Linux Version 4.19.
Thx for your suggestion, I will put this information in the commit message.
> 
> If it is a regression, should this also be queued for stable? (I guess so?)
This is a corner case which is very hard to reproduce in product, I 
suggest this fix to be queued for stable.
> 
> Yours,
> Linus Walleij

-- 
Thx and BRs,
Aiqun(Maria) Yu


  reply	other threads:[~2023-11-15  0:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-11-14  8:52 [PATCH] pinctrl: avoid reload of p state in interation Maria Yu
2023-11-14  8:56 ` kernel test robot
2023-11-14 13:21 ` Linus Walleij
2023-11-15  0:56   ` Aiqun(Maria) Yu [this message]
2023-11-15  2:07     ` andy.shevchenko
2023-11-15  3:05       ` Aiqun(Maria) Yu

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