From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>
To: Dan Ziemba <zman0900@gmail.com>
Cc: Malcolm Priestley <tvboxspy@gmail.com>,
Linux Media Mailing List <linux-media@vger.kernel.org>,
Antti Palosaari <crope@iki.fi>,
stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] [bug/urgent] dvb-usb-v2: Fix incorrect use of transfer_flags URB_FREE_BUFFER
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2019 12:32:22 -0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190107123222.50760c8a@coco.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <204ed67fafd1ecdc58158da9758a3b6b01ec5ada.camel@gmail.com>
Em Sat, 05 Jan 2019 20:49:00 -0500
Dan Ziemba <zman0900@gmail.com> escreveu:
> On Mon, 2018-11-26 at 20:18 +0000, Malcolm Priestley wrote:
> > In commit 1a0c10ed7b media: dvb-usb-v2: stop using coherent memory
> > for URBs
> > incorrectly adds URB_FREE_BUFFER after every urb transfer.
> >
> > It cannot use this flag because it reconfigures the URBs accordingly
> > to suit connected devices. In doing a call to usb_free_urb is made
> > and
> > invertedly frees the buffers.
> >
> > The stream buffer should remain constant while driver is up.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Malcolm Priestley <tvboxspy@gmail.com>
> > CC: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.18+
The patch is already there at Kernel 5.0-rc1. Greg merged it today on
his stable trees in order to be merged on Kernels 4.19 and 4.20.
> > ---
> > v3 change commit message to the actual cause
> >
> > drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb-v2/usb_urb.c | 5 ++---
> > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb-v2/usb_urb.c
> > b/drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb-v2/usb_urb.c
> > index 024c751eb165..2ad2ddeaff51 100644
> > --- a/drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb-v2/usb_urb.c
> > +++ b/drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb-v2/usb_urb.c
> > @@ -155,7 +155,6 @@ static int usb_urb_alloc_bulk_urbs(struct
> > usb_data_stream *stream)
> > stream->props.u.bulk.buffersize,
> > usb_urb_complete, stream);
> >
> > - stream->urb_list[i]->transfer_flags = URB_FREE_BUFFER;
> > stream->urbs_initialized++;
> > }
> > return 0;
> > @@ -186,7 +185,7 @@ static int usb_urb_alloc_isoc_urbs(struct
> > usb_data_stream *stream)
> > urb->complete = usb_urb_complete;
> > urb->pipe = usb_rcvisocpipe(stream->udev,
> > stream->props.endpoint);
> > - urb->transfer_flags = URB_ISO_ASAP | URB_FREE_BUFFER;
> > + urb->transfer_flags = URB_ISO_ASAP;
> > urb->interval = stream->props.u.isoc.interval;
> > urb->number_of_packets = stream-
> > >props.u.isoc.framesperurb;
> > urb->transfer_buffer_length = stream-
> > >props.u.isoc.framesize *
> > @@ -210,7 +209,7 @@ static int usb_free_stream_buffers(struct
> > usb_data_stream *stream)
> > if (stream->state & USB_STATE_URB_BUF) {
> > while (stream->buf_num) {
> > stream->buf_num--;
> > - stream->buf_list[stream->buf_num] = NULL;
> > + kfree(stream->buf_list[stream->buf_num]);
> > }
> > }
> >
>
> I have tested this against Arch Linux's kernel packages for both linux
> 4.20 and linux-lts 4.19.13. For both, the patch seems to fix the
> crashes I reported here:
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=201055
>
> Thanks,
> Dan Ziemba
>
>
Thanks,
Mauro
prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-01-07 14:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-11-26 20:18 [PATCH v3] [bug/urgent] dvb-usb-v2: Fix incorrect use of transfer_flags URB_FREE_BUFFER Malcolm Priestley
2019-01-06 1:49 ` Dan Ziemba
2019-01-07 14:32 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab [this message]
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