Attempting to find room for a packet that's bigger than the fifo will never succeed and the calling process will be sleeping forever in the loop, waiting for enough room. So fail early instead. Reported-by: Courtney Cavin <courtney.cavin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/soc/qcom/smd.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/soc/qcom/smd.c b/drivers/soc/qcom/smd.c index 18964f154383..88353bda1ea4 100644 --- a/drivers/soc/qcom/smd.c +++ b/drivers/soc/qcom/smd.c @@ -723,6 +723,10 @@ int qcom_smd_send(struct qcom_smd_channel *channel, const void *data, int len) if (channel->info_word && len % 4) return -EINVAL; + /* Reject packets that are too big */ + if (tlen >= channel->fifo_size) + return -EINVAL; + ret = mutex_lock_interruptible(&channel->tx_lock); if (ret) return ret; -- 1.8.2.2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-soc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html