Re: [PATCH v4 5/5] spi: spi-geni-qcom: Don't keep a local state variable

[Stephen Boyd]

Quoting Doug Anderson (2020-06-18 15:00:10)
> On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 2:52 PM Stephen Boyd <swboyd@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > -----8<----
> > diff --git a/drivers/spi/spi-geni-qcom.c b/drivers/spi/spi-geni-qcom.c
> > index d8f03ffb8594..670f83793aa4 100644
> > --- a/drivers/spi/spi-geni-qcom.c
> > +++ b/drivers/spi/spi-geni-qcom.c
> > @@ -121,6 +121,10 @@ static void handle_fifo_timeout(struct spi_master *spi,
> >         spin_lock_irq(&mas->lock);
> >         reinit_completion(&mas->cancel_done);
> >         writel(0, se->base + SE_GENI_TX_WATERMARK_REG);
> > +       /*
> > +        * Make sure we don't finalize a spi transfer that timed out but
> > +        * came in while cancelling.
> > +        */
> >         mas->cur_xfer = NULL;
> >         mas->tx_rem_bytes = mas->rx_rem_bytes = 0;
> >         geni_se_cancel_m_cmd(se);
> 
> Sure.  It gets the point across, though
> spi_finalize_current_transfer() is actually pretty harmless if you
> call it while cancelling.  It just calls a completion.  I'd rather say
> something like "If we're here because the SPI controller was calling
> handle_err() then the transfer is done and we shouldn't hold onto it
> anymore".
> 

Agreed it's mostly harmless. I thought the concern was that 'cur_xfer'
may reference a freed piece of memory so it's best to remove ownership
of the pointer from here so that the irq handler doesn't try to finalize
a transfer that may no longer exist. "Shouldn't hold onto it anymore"
doesn't tell us why it shouldn't be held onto, leaving it to the reader
to figure out why, which isn't good.