Re: [PATCH 0/2] Race fixes in sdhci

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On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 8:23 AM, Mark Brown
<broonie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I've had this pair of patches sitting in my tree for a while now (I
> believe they were previously posted) providing stability improvements in
> sdhci on my systems.  Having looked through the code I believe but have
> not confirmed that the issue is that the timeout is racing with an
> actual completion of a pending task - both paths will trigger the
> tasklet, and if you trigger a tasklet while it is running this causes it
> to be rescheduled.  The result will be that the tasklet gets run a
> second time with no work pending for it.
>
> I'm not convinced that these are the best fixes (it feels like we should
> instead be closing the races down) but I don't really have time to come
> up with something better myself right now so I'm pushing them out as-is
> for comment.
>
> Ben Dooks (1):
>      MMC: SDHCI: Check mrq->cmd in sdhci_tasklet_finish
>
> Dimitris Papastamos (1):
>      MMC: SDHCI: Check mrq != NULL in sdhci_tasklet_finish
>
>  drivers/mmc/host/sdhci.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

So the timeout interrupt occurs after even though the command
succeeds? Am I interpreting that correctly?

A
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