Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] serial: sh-sci: start hrtimer after setting up DMA

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Hi Wolfram,

Thanks for your patch!

On Tue, Apr 16, 2024 at 2:35 PM Wolfram Sang
<wsa+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In the RX DMA completion handler, the hrtimer was restarted before DMA
> was set up. If DMA failed, for some reason, it would clean up and the
> hrtimer would run into a NULL-pointer. Restart the timer after DMA was

... into a NULL-pointer dereference of s->chan_rx.

> successfully set up.
>
> Reported-by: Dirk Behme <dirk.behme@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/r/ee6c9e16-9f29-450e-81da-4a8dceaa8fc7@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Fixes: 67f462b069e9 ("serial: sh-sci: Get rid of the workqueue to handle receive DMA requests")
> Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

This is definitely a step in the right direction, so
Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx>

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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