Re: [PATCH] dvb: siano: free spinlock before schedule()

From: Richard Zidlicky
Date: Tue Aug 24 2010 - 11:53:45 EST


On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 09:52:36AM -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> Em 08-08-2010 13:10, Richard Zidlicky escreveu:
> > On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 12:24:39AM +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> >
> > sorry for seeing this so late, was flooded with email lately.
> >
> >> There is a better fix (which fixes the potential NULL dereference):
> >> http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/6/7/175
> >
> >> Richard, could you address the comments there and resend?
> >
> > I am running this patch since many weeks (after fixing the compile error obviously).
> > Did not implement your beautification suggestion yet, was doing all kinds of experiments
> > with IR and had plenty of unrelated issues.
>
> This patch seems a way better than the previous patch. I've rebased it against
> the current tree (and fixed the identation).

thanks for looking at it.

> The only missing issue on it is the lack of your Signed-off-by. Richard, could you
> please send it to us?


Signed-off-by: Richard Zidlicky <rz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

PS: I will be away for a while.

>
> ---
> drivers/media/dvb/siano/smscoreapi.c | 31 +++++++++++++------------------
> 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
>
> --- patchwork.orig/drivers/media/dvb/siano/smscoreapi.c
> +++ patchwork/drivers/media/dvb/siano/smscoreapi.c
> @@ -1098,31 +1098,26 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(smscore_onresponse);
> *
> * @return pointer to descriptor on success, NULL on error.
> */
> -struct smscore_buffer_t *smscore_getbuffer(struct smscore_device_t *coredev)
> +
> +struct smscore_buffer_t *get_entry(struct smscore_device_t *coredev)
> {
> struct smscore_buffer_t *cb = NULL;
> unsigned long flags;
>
> - DEFINE_WAIT(wait);
> -
> spin_lock_irqsave(&coredev->bufferslock, flags);
> + if (!list_empty(&coredev->buffers)) {
> + cb = (struct smscore_buffer_t *) coredev->buffers.next;
> + list_del(&cb->entry);
> + }
> + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&coredev->bufferslock, flags);
> + return cb;
> +}
>
> - /* This function must return a valid buffer, since the buffer list is
> - * finite, we check that there is an available buffer, if not, we wait
> - * until such buffer become available.
> - */
> -
> - prepare_to_wait(&coredev->buffer_mng_waitq, &wait, TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
> -
> - if (list_empty(&coredev->buffers))
> - schedule();
> -
> - finish_wait(&coredev->buffer_mng_waitq, &wait);
> -
> - cb = (struct smscore_buffer_t *) coredev->buffers.next;
> - list_del(&cb->entry);
> +struct smscore_buffer_t *smscore_getbuffer(struct smscore_device_t *coredev)
> +{
> + struct smscore_buffer_t *cb = NULL;
>
> - spin_unlock_irqrestore(&coredev->bufferslock, flags);
> + wait_event(coredev->buffer_mng_waitq, (cb = get_entry(coredev)));
>
> return cb;
> }
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