This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled dmaengine: imx-dma: fix callback path in tasklet to the 3.11-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: dmaengine-imx-dma-fix-callback-path-in-tasklet.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.11 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From fcaaba6c7136fe47e5a13352f99a64b019b6d2c5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Grzeschik <m.grzeschik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 15:56:08 +0200 Subject: dmaengine: imx-dma: fix callback path in tasklet From: Michael Grzeschik <m.grzeschik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit fcaaba6c7136fe47e5a13352f99a64b019b6d2c5 upstream. We need to free the ld_active list head before jumping into the callback routine. Otherwise the callback could run into issue_pending and change our ld_active list head we just going to free. This will run the channel list into an currupted and undefined state. Signed-off-by: Michael Grzeschik <m.grzeschik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jonghwan Choi <jhbird.choi@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/dma/imx-dma.c | 10 ++++++---- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/dma/imx-dma.c +++ b/drivers/dma/imx-dma.c @@ -627,13 +627,11 @@ static void imxdma_tasklet(unsigned long if (list_empty(&imxdmac->ld_active)) { /* Someone might have called terminate all */ - goto out; + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&imxdma->lock, flags); + return; } desc = list_first_entry(&imxdmac->ld_active, struct imxdma_desc, node); - if (desc->desc.callback) - desc->desc.callback(desc->desc.callback_param); - /* If we are dealing with a cyclic descriptor, keep it on ld_active * and dont mark the descriptor as complete. * Only in non-cyclic cases it would be marked as complete @@ -661,6 +659,10 @@ static void imxdma_tasklet(unsigned long } out: spin_unlock_irqrestore(&imxdma->lock, flags); + + if (desc->desc.callback) + desc->desc.callback(desc->desc.callback_param); + } static int imxdma_control(struct dma_chan *chan, enum dma_ctrl_cmd cmd, Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from m.grzeschik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.11/dmaengine-imx-dma-fix-slow-path-issue-in-prep_dma_cyclic.patch queue-3.11/dmaengine-imx-dma-fix-callback-path-in-tasklet.patch queue-3.11/dmaengine-imx-dma-fix-lockdep-issue-between-irqhandler-and-tasklet.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html