Re: [PATCH v2] mmc: mxcmmc: fix bug that may block a data transfer forever.

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Hi Anatolij,

Anatolij Gustschin wrote:

> this change introduces a race condition for host->req (and maybe
> for host->data) accesses. The callback is running in soft-irq context and can
> be interrupted by the mxcmci_irq() interrupt which can finish the request and
> set host->req to NULL. Then mxcmci_data_done() crashes with a null pointer
> dereference. How extensively was it tested?

Does the patch below help?

--- a/drivers/mmc/host/mxcmmc.c
+++ b/drivers/mmc/host/mxcmmc.c
@@ -309,9 +309,11 @@ static void mxcmci_dma_callback(void *data)
 {
        struct mxcmci_host *host = data;
        u32 stat;
+       unsigned int long flags;

        del_timer(&host->watchdog);

+       spin_lock_irqsave(&host->lock, flags);
        stat = readl(host->base + MMC_REG_STATUS);
        writel(stat & ~STATUS_DATA_TRANS_DONE, host->base + MMC_REG_STATUS);

@@ -320,6 +322,7 @@ static void mxcmci_dma_callback(void *data)
        if (stat & STATUS_READ_OP_DONE)
                writel(STATUS_READ_OP_DONE, host->base + MMC_REG_STATUS);

+       spin_unlock_irqrestore(&host->lock, flags);
        mxcmci_data_done(host, stat);
 }


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