Re: [PATCHv2] media: venc: destroy hfi session after m2m_ctx release

From: Sergey Senozhatsky
Date: Thu Dec 19 2024 - 23:33:09 EST


On (24/12/19 15:12), Dmitry Baryshkov wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 19, 2024 at 02:37:08PM +0900, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> > This partially reverts commit that made hfi_session_destroy()
> > the first step of vdec/venc close(). The reason being is a
> > regression report when, supposedly, encode/decoder is closed
> > with still active streaming (no ->stop_streaming() call before
> > close()) and pending pkts, so isr_thread cannot find instance
> > and fails to process those pending pkts. This was the idea
> > behind the original patch - make it impossible to use instance
> > under destruction, because this is racy, but apparently there
> > are uses cases that depend on that unsafe pattern. Return to
> > the old (unsafe) behaviour for the time being (until a better
> > fix is found).
>
> You are describing a regression. Could you please add corresponding
> Reported-by and Closes tags (for now you can post them in a reply to
> your patch, in future please include them in your commit message).

The regression report is internal, I don't have anything public.
One of the teams found out that some of their tests started to
fail.

> > Fixes: 45b1a1b348ec ("media: venus: sync with threaded IRQ during inst destruction")
> > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> This is v2, but there is no changelog. Please provide one.

The code is obviously the same, I only added Cc: stable and removed
one extra character in commit id "45b1a1b348ec".