Re: [PATCH] tty: serial: fsl_lpuart: fix del_timer_sync() vs timer routine deadlock

[Nikita Yushchenko]

>> Problem found via lockdep:
>>
>> - lpuart_set_termios() calls del_timer_sync(&sport->lpuart_timer) while
>>   holding sport->port.lock
>>
>> - sport->lpuart_timer routine is lpuart_timer_func() that calls
>>   lpuart_copy_rx_to_tty() that acquires same lock.
>>
>> To fix, move Rx DMA stopping out of lock, as it already is in other places
>> in the same file.
>>
>> While at it, also make Rx DMA start/stop code to look the same is in
>> other places in the same file.
> 
> Yeah I saw that too, never really came around to look closer into it.
> 
> Thanks for looking into it.
> 
> You removed the check whether there was an old configuration, I think
> the idea of that was that we only resize DMA if it was configured
> differently before...

Per my code reading, checking for sport->lpuart_dma_rx_use should be
enough, this flag will be set only if DMA was previously enabled,

>> +	if (sport->lpuart_dma_rx_use) {
>> +		if (!lpuart_start_rx_dma(sport)) {
>>  			sport->lpuart_dma_rx_use = true;
> 
> No need to set to true here, it is guaranteed to be true at this point.

I've seen this...  However elsewhere in this file (namely in
lpuart_resume(), in very similar situation, code is exactly the same,
i.e. it sets sport->lpuart_dma_rx_use in both clauses. I thought it
could be for a reason (i.e. for readability).

Nikita