[PATCH] dmaengine: fix regression introduced byd6103085dfd83c13db65c3bd7e182f021d77c541

From: Guennadi Liakhovetski
Date: Tue Mar 31 2009 - 12:07:33 EST


chan is an index variable, used to loop over a list of channels, and here
it is used _after_ the loop, in which case it doesn't point to a DMA
channel struct anymore. Dereferencing it leads to a corruption of a random
memory location, which in my case was a pointer inside a clock struct. Fix
it by using a local variable pointing to the DMA device.

Signed-off-by: Guennadi Liakhovetski <lg@xxxxxxx>
---

Guys, this was a _real_ bad joke, cost me almost a day, and that patch has
been reviewed by two persons...

<rant>
So far 2.6.29(-next) has been very bad for me, regressions all over the
place, lots of wasted time hunting them down:-(
</rant>

diff --git a/drivers/dma/dmaengine.c b/drivers/dma/dmaengine.c
index 59e0fb2..92438e9 100644
--- a/drivers/dma/dmaengine.c
+++ b/drivers/dma/dmaengine.c
@@ -726,7 +726,7 @@ int dma_async_device_register(struct dma_device *device)
}
list_add_tail_rcu(&device->global_node, &dma_device_list);
if (dma_has_cap(DMA_PRIVATE, device->cap_mask))
- chan->device->privatecnt++; /* Always private */
+ device->privatecnt++; /* Always private */
dma_channel_rebalance();
mutex_unlock(&dma_list_mutex);

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