From: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx> 3.12-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. =============== commit e9baa9d9d520fb0e24cca671e430689de2d4a4b2 upstream. It appears that in the DMA40 driver the DMA tasklet will very often dereference memory for a descriptor just free:d from the DMA40 slab. Nothing happens because no other part of the driver has yet had a chance to claim this memory, but it's really nasty to dereference free:d memory, so let's check the flag before the descriptor is free and store it in a bool variable. Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx> --- drivers/dma/ste_dma40.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/dma/ste_dma40.c b/drivers/dma/ste_dma40.c index 82d2b97ad942..20f22ecb712e 100644 --- a/drivers/dma/ste_dma40.c +++ b/drivers/dma/ste_dma40.c @@ -1640,6 +1640,7 @@ static void dma_tasklet(unsigned long data) struct d40_chan *d40c = (struct d40_chan *) data; struct d40_desc *d40d; unsigned long flags; + bool callback_active; dma_async_tx_callback callback; void *callback_param; @@ -1667,6 +1668,7 @@ static void dma_tasklet(unsigned long data) } /* Callback to client */ + callback_active = !!(d40d->txd.flags & DMA_PREP_INTERRUPT); callback = d40d->txd.callback; callback_param = d40d->txd.callback_param; @@ -1689,7 +1691,7 @@ static void dma_tasklet(unsigned long data) spin_unlock_irqrestore(&d40c->lock, flags); - if (callback && (d40d->txd.flags & DMA_PREP_INTERRUPT)) + if (callback_active && callback) callback(callback_param); return; -- 1.9.0 -- 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