Re: cdc-wdm: race between reset and work queue

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On Fri, 2015-01-16 at 10:13 +0100, Bjørn Mork wrote:
> Oliver Neukum <oneukum@xxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > On Thu, 2015-01-15 at 17:52 +0100, Bjørn Mork wrote:
> >> Oliver Neukum <oneukum@xxxxxxx> writes:
> >> 
> >> > Hi,
> >> >
> >> > I think I found a race between pre_reset() and the bottom half.
> >> > In wdm_rxwork() WDM_RESETTING is not checked for. That means that
> >> >
> >> > wdm_pre_reset() cannot reliable end IO. What do you think?
> >> 
> >> Yes, it certainly looks that way.  There are too many flags meaning
> >> "end IO"... 
> >
> > So you think I should consolidate the flags rather add a check?
> 
> If possible.  At least that was my initial thought after a quick look.
> But I don't know how feasible it is.  I can imagine that we might need
> to separate the flags we want to clear.  At least the ones that can be
> set at the same time, if any.

At a closer look it looks to me that this is not easily doable,
as the error returns and the response to poll() must be different.

	Regards
		Oliver


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