[PATCH] saa7134: fix thread shutdown handling

From: Jeff Mahoney
Date: Thu Jun 21 2007 - 14:45:26 EST


This patch changes the test for the thread pid from >= 0 to > 0.

When the saa8134 driver initialization fails after a certain point,
it goes through the complete shutdown process for the driver. Part
of shutting it down includes tearing down the thread for tv audio.

The test for tearing down the thread tests for >= 0. Since the dev
structure is kzalloc'd, the test will always be true if we haven't
tried to start the thread yet. We end up waiting on pid 0 to complete,
which will never happen, so we lock up.

This bug was observed in Novell Bugzilla 284718, when request_irq()
failed.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@xxxxxxxx>

---

drivers/media/video/saa7134/saa7134-tvaudio.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/media/video/saa7134/saa7134-tvaudio.c 2007-06-12 15:45:16.000000000 -0400
+++ b/drivers/media/video/saa7134/saa7134-tvaudio.c 2007-06-15 14:16:14.000000000 -0400
@@ -1005,7 +1005,7 @@
int saa7134_tvaudio_fini(struct saa7134_dev *dev)
{
/* shutdown tvaudio thread */
- if (dev->thread.pid >= 0) {
+ if (dev->thread.pid > 0) {
dev->thread.shutdown = 1;
wake_up_interruptible(&dev->thread.wq);
wait_for_completion(&dev->thread.exit);

--
Jeff Mahoney
SUSE Labs
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