I added book keeping of whether or not the 8250-dma driver has an RX transfer pending or not so we don't BUG here if it calls dmaengine_pause() on a channel which has not a pending transfer. Guess what, this is not enough. The following can be triggered with a busy RX channel and hackbench in background: - DMA transfer completes. The callback is delayed via vchan_cookie_complete() into a tasklet so it das not happen asap. - hackbench keeps the system busy so the tasklet does not run "soon". - the UART collected enough data and generates an "timeout"-interrupt. Since 8250-dma *thinks* the DMA-transfer is still pending it tries to cancel it via invoking dmaengine_pause() first. This causes the segfault because echan->edesc is NULL now that the transfer completed (however the callback did not run yet). With this patch we don't BUG in the scenario described. Cc: vinod.koul@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/dma/edma.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/dma/edma.c b/drivers/dma/edma.c index 7b65633f495e..123f578d6dd3 100644 --- a/drivers/dma/edma.c +++ b/drivers/dma/edma.c @@ -288,7 +288,7 @@ static int edma_slave_config(struct edma_chan *echan, static int edma_dma_pause(struct edma_chan *echan) { /* Pause/Resume only allowed with cyclic mode */ - if (!echan->edesc->cyclic) + if (!echan->edesc || !echan->edesc->cyclic) return -EINVAL; edma_pause(echan->ch_num); -- 2.1.0 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-serial" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html