The watchdog needs to be schedule before we trigger the decode operation, otherwise there is a risk that the decoder IRQ will be called before we have schedule the watchdog. As a side effect, the watchdog would never be cancelled and its function would be called at an inappropriate time. This was observed while running Fluster with GStreamer as a backend. Some programming error would cause the decoder IRQ to be call very quickly after the trigger. Later calls into the driver would deadlock due to the unbalanced state. Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fixes: 7c38a551bda1 ("media: cedrus: Add watchdog for job completion") Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dufresne <nicolas.dufresne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/cedrus_dec.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/cedrus_dec.c b/drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/cedrus_dec.c index 3b6aa78a2985f..e7f7602a5ab40 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/cedrus_dec.c +++ b/drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/cedrus_dec.c @@ -106,11 +106,11 @@ void cedrus_device_run(void *priv) /* Trigger decoding if setup went well, bail out otherwise. */ if (!error) { - dev->dec_ops[ctx->current_codec]->trigger(ctx); - /* Start the watchdog timer. */ schedule_delayed_work(&dev->watchdog_work, msecs_to_jiffies(2000)); + + dev->dec_ops[ctx->current_codec]->trigger(ctx); } else { v4l2_m2m_buf_done_and_job_finish(ctx->dev->m2m_dev, ctx->fh.m2m_ctx, -- 2.37.2