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Even with the introduced vchan_synchronize() we can face race when terminating a cyclic transfer. If the terminate_all is called after the interrupt handler called vchan_cyclic_callback(), but before the vchan_complete tasklet is called: vc->cyclic is set to the cyclic descriptor, but the descriptor itself was freed up in the driver's terminate_all() callback. When the vhan_complete() is executed it will try to fetch the vc->cyclic vdesc, but the pointer is pointing now to uninitialized memory leading to (hard to reproduce) kernel crash. In order to fix this, drivers should: - call vchan_terminate_vdesc() from their terminate_all callback instead calling their free_desc function to free up the descriptor. - implement device_synchronize callback and call vchan_synchronize(). This way we can make sure that the descriptor is only going to be freed up after the vchan_callback was executed in a safe manner. Signed-off-by: Peter Ujfalusi <peter.ujfalusi@ti.com> Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com>
Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.