[alsa-devel] [PATCH 0/2] ALSA: fireworks/firewire-tascam: accessing to user space outside spinlock

Vaishali Thakkar vaishali.thakkar at oracle.com
Mon Aug 29 19:32:04 CEST 2016



On Saturday 27 August 2016 02:20 AM, Takashi Sakamoto wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> In ALSA fireworks driver and firewire-tascam driver, current implementation
> for hwdep interface have issues for page fault handling. For example,
> when using single core processor, after executing lock_page() in page fault
> handler and call task scheduler, then the context never run again, because
> any interrupts are disabled by these drivers and the context can't catch
> waiting event. This patchset fixes the issues.
> 
> The issues were reported by Vaishali Thakkar, with a help of coccinelle.
> Thanks a lot for his care to these minor drivers.
> http://mailman.alsa-project.org/pipermail/alsa-devel/2016-August/111887.html

Hi,

Just a minor correction here. 'his -> her' :)

> Takashi Sakamoto (2):
>   ALSA: fireworks: accessing to user space outside spinlock
>   ALSA: firewire-tascam: accessing to user space outside spinlock
> 
>  sound/firewire/fireworks/fireworks_hwdep.c | 20 ++++++++++++++-----
>  sound/firewire/tascam/tascam-hwdep.c       | 32 ++++++++++--------------------
>  2 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)
> 

-- 
Vaishali


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