This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
media: dmxdev: remove dvb_ringbuffer_flush() on writer side
to the 3.10-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
media-dmxdev-remove-dvb_ringbuffer_flush-on-writer-side.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 414abbd2cd4c2618895f02ed3a76ec6647281436 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Soeren Moch <smoch@xxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2013 21:26:23 -0300
Subject: media: dmxdev: remove dvb_ringbuffer_flush() on writer side
From: Soeren Moch <smoch@xxxxxx>
commit 414abbd2cd4c2618895f02ed3a76ec6647281436 upstream.
In dvb_ringbuffer lock-less synchronizationof reader and writer threads is done
with separateread and write pointers. Sincedvb_ringbuffer_flush() modifies the
read pointer, this function must not be called from the writer thread.
This patch removes the dvb_ringbuffer_flush() calls in the dmxdev ringbuffer
write functions, this fixes Oopses "Unable to handle kernel paging request"
I could observe for the call chaindvb_demux_read ->dvb_dmxdev_buffer_read ->
dvb_ringbuffer_read_user -> __copy_to_user (the reader side of the ringbuffer).
The flush calls at the write side are not necessary anyway since ringbuffer_flush
is also called in dvb_dmxdev_buffer_read() when an error condition is set in the
ringbuffer.
This patch should also be applied to stable kernels.
Signed-off-by: Soeren Moch <smoch@xxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/media/dvb-core/dmxdev.c | 8 ++------
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/media/dvb-core/dmxdev.c
+++ b/drivers/media/dvb-core/dmxdev.c
@@ -377,10 +377,8 @@ static int dvb_dmxdev_section_callback(c
ret = dvb_dmxdev_buffer_write(&dmxdevfilter->buffer, buffer2,
buffer2_len);
}
- if (ret < 0) {
- dvb_ringbuffer_flush(&dmxdevfilter->buffer);
+ if (ret < 0)
dmxdevfilter->buffer.error = ret;
- }
if (dmxdevfilter->params.sec.flags & DMX_ONESHOT)
dmxdevfilter->state = DMXDEV_STATE_DONE;
spin_unlock(&dmxdevfilter->dev->lock);
@@ -416,10 +414,8 @@ static int dvb_dmxdev_ts_callback(const
ret = dvb_dmxdev_buffer_write(buffer, buffer1, buffer1_len);
if (ret == buffer1_len)
ret = dvb_dmxdev_buffer_write(buffer, buffer2, buffer2_len);
- if (ret < 0) {
- dvb_ringbuffer_flush(buffer);
+ if (ret < 0)
buffer->error = ret;
- }
spin_unlock(&dmxdevfilter->dev->lock);
wake_up(&buffer->queue);
return 0;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from smoch@xxxxxx are
queue-3.10/media-dmxdev-remove-dvb_ringbuffer_flush-on-writer-side.patch
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