Re: [PATCH 1/3] iio: st_sensors: Init trigger before irq request

From: Linus Walleij
Date: Tue May 24 2016 - 07:27:21 EST


On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 8:43 PM, Crestez Dan Leonard
<leonard.crestez@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> This fixes a possible race where an interrupt arrives before complete
> initialization and crashes because iio_trigger_get_drvdata returns NULL.
>
> Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Giuseppe Barba <giuseppe.barba@xxxxxx>
> Cc: Denis Ciocca <denis.ciocca@xxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Crestez Dan Leonard <leonard.crestez@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> I ran into this while breaking the driver. But since the interrupt line can be
> shared the handler should always be able to accept and ignore a call.

Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>

However I think my patch fixing the thread issue will collide
by being close in context to this so it'd be great if you
could resend it on top of
"iio: st_sensors: switch to a threaded interrupt"?

Yours,
Linus Walleij