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

From: Linus Walleij
Date: Fri Feb 15 2013 - 15:52:28 EST


On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 3:56 PM, Andy Shevchenko
<andy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 4:52 PM, Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 11:58 AM, Andy Shevchenko
>> <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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?

Sure, acked-by.

Thanks,
Linus Walleij
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