Re: [PATCH 1/2] dmaengine: TXx9 Soc DMA Controller driver

From: Atsushi Nemoto
Date: Mon Mar 16 2009 - 22:20:46 EST


On Mon, 16 Mar 2009 14:50:46 -0700, Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > And above "continue" looks buggy anyway. Keeping incomplete channels
> > in device->channels list looks very dangerous...
>
> Yes it does. Here is the proposed fix:
> ----->
> dmaengine: fail device registration if channel registration fails
>
> From: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Atsushi points out:
> "If alloc_percpu or kzalloc failed, chan_id does not match with its
> position in device->channels list.
>
> And above "continue" looks buggy anyway. Keeping incomplete channels
> in device->channels list looks very dangerous..."
>
> Reported-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>

Thanks, but it seems a hole sill exists. If alloc_percpu or kzalloc
for the first channel failed, when idr_ref will be freed ?

Hmm.. why idr_ref is dynamically allocated? Just putting it in
dma_device makes thing more simple, no?

---
Atsushi Nemoto
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