On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 11:08 AM, Boris Brezillon
<boris.brezillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Dinh,
>
> On Fri, 11 Dec 2015 10:50:21 -0600
> Dinh Nguyen <dinh.linux@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hi Boris,
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 9:10 AM, Boris Brezillon
>> <boris.brezillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > + Dinh (who made commit 2a0a288ec258)
>> >
>> > Also added back the Fixes tag.
>> >
>> > On Fri, 11 Dec 2015 15:02:34 +0100
>> > Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Unregister the NAND device from the NAND subsystem when removing a denali
>> >> NAND controller, otherwise the MTD attached to the NAND device is still
>> >> exposed by the MTD layer, and accesses to this device will likely crash
>> >> the system.
>> >>
>> >> Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> >
>> > Fixes: 2a0a288ec258 ("mtd: denali: split the generic driver and PCI layer")
>> >
>> >> ---
>> >> Changes since v4:
>> >> - remove Cc stable and fixes tags
>> >> - calculate the dma buffer size before calling nand_release()
>> >>
>> >> drivers/mtd/nand/denali.c | 6 ++++--
>> >> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>> >>
>> >> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/denali.c b/drivers/mtd/nand/denali.c
>> >> index 67eb2be..fdfea05 100644
>> >> --- a/drivers/mtd/nand/denali.c
>> >> +++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/denali.c
>> >> @@ -1622,9 +1622,11 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(denali_init);
>> >> /* driver exit point */
>> >> void denali_remove(struct denali_nand_info *denali)
>> >> {
>> >> + int bufsize = denali->mtd.writesize + denali->mtd.oobsize;
>> >> +
>> >> + nand_release(&denali->mtd);
>> >> denali_irq_cleanup(denali->irq, denali);
>> >> - dma_unmap_single(denali->dev, denali->buf.dma_buf,
>> >> - denali->mtd.writesize + denali->mtd.oobsize,
>> >> + dma_unmap_single(denali->dev, denali->buf.dma_buf, bufsize,
>> >> DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL);
>>
>> Not sure what is the need to add bufsize here, but the commit message
>> doesn't reflect the change.
>
> You were not in Cc of the first version (my fault), but Brian pointed
> that the mtd fields could be in an unknown state after the
> nand_release() call (this is currently not the case, but it change in
> the future). The idea is to pre-compute the DMA buffer size before
> releasing the mtd/nand device to prevent any future issues.
>
> I don't think it is worth mentioning this in the commit message,
> because these are just implementation details, but I can add the
> following comment before the bufsize declaration:
>
> /*
> * Pre-compute DMA buffer size to avoid any problems in case
> * nand_release() ever changes in a way that mtd->writesize and
> * mtd->oobsize are not reliable after this call.
> */
>
> What do you think?
>
Ah, perfect! With the updated comment,
Acked-by: Dinh Nguyen <dinguyen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Thanks,
Dinh
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