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); } -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-mmc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html