Re: [PATCH RESEND v3 0/5] media: uvcvideo: Fix race conditions

[Dominique MARTINET]

Guenter Roeck wrote on Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 06:54:52AM -0800:
> On 3/11/21 11:36 PM, Dominique MARTINET wrote:
> > Guenter Roeck wrote on Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 07:16:17PM -0700:
> >> On 9/17/20 5:47 AM, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> >>> I haven't checked the mailing list, but I've found it in my inbox :-)
> >>> I'm not forgetting about you, just been fairly busy recently. I still
> >>> plan to try and provide an alternative implementation in the V4L2 core
> >>> (in a form that I think should even be moved to the cdev core) that
> >>> would fix this for all drivers.
> >>>
> >> Thanks for letting me know. As it turns out, this problem is responsible
> >> for about 2% of all Chromebook crashes, so I'll probably not wait for
> >> the series to be accepted upstream but apply it as-is to the various
> >> ChromeOS kernel branches.
> > 
> > We have a customer who reported the same issue recently, has there been
> > any development?
> > 
> 
> Not that I know of. We applied the series to all Chrome OS kernel branches,
> and it reliably fixes the problem for us. We'd like to have the problem
> fixed upstream; until that happens we'll have to carry the series forward.

Thanks for confirming.
Laurent, would it make sense to take the patches as they are until a
better fix is ready?

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Dominique