[PATCH 3/6] dma: coh901318_lli: avoid unbalanced locking

Andy Shevchenko andy.shevchenko at gmail.com
Fri Feb 15 09:56:55 EST 2013


On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 4:52 PM, Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at linaro.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 11:58 AM, Andy Shevchenko
> <andriy.shevchenko at linux.intel.com> wrote:
>
>> I have not checked the code but there is a possibility that custom pool->lock
>> is not needed at all due to dma_pool contains it's own lock.
>
> Can you please change the description to something like:
>
> "The coh901318_lli allocator releases a lock on the exit path without
> taking it first".

In v2 (that by fact already applied) I put following description:

    In case the len is 0 we must return without trying to unlock the
lock that was
    not locked.

Does it fit your suggestion?

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko



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