[alsa-devel] [PATCH v2 1/2] remgap: Fix possible sleep-in-atomic in regmap_bulk_write()

[Mark Brown]

On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 01:57:22PM +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> Mark Brown wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 12:58:33PM +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote:

> > > +		map->lock(map->lock_arg);
> > >  		for (i = 0; i < val_count * val_bytes; i += val_bytes)
> > >  			map->format.parse_inplace(wval + i);
> > >  
> > >  		ret = _regmap_raw_write(map, reg, wval, val_bytes * val_count);
> > > +		map->unlock(map->lock_arg);

> > If we're reducing the locking region here then we should take the lock
> > after doing the parse_inplace() to reduce the locked region.  Nothing
> > else can be referring to the data since we only just allocated it.  I'll
> > fix that by hand and apply.

> I thought of that, too, but didn't take it because covering the lock
> there doesn't change the fact that it's still fundamentally racy.

I'm not sure what you mean here - what do you mean yb "covering the
lock"?

> > Please also send things to the list for the subsystem (linux-kernel if
> > there's not a specific one).

> OK, I just copied the previous recipient of the thread...

Sure, but if there's another subsystem adding that subsystem helps
things along.
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 836 bytes
Desc: Digital signature
URL: <http://mailman.alsa-project.org/pipermail/alsa-devel/attachments/20140318/b15ce927/attachment.sig>