linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] dw_dmac: Fix copy/paste bug in tasklet

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Date:	Fri, 3 Oct 2008 02:26:38 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Haavard Skinnemoen <haavard.skinnemoen@...el.com>
Cc:	dan.j.williams@...el.com, maciej.sosnowski@...el.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dw_dmac: Fix copy/paste bug in tasklet

On Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:27:59 +0200 Haavard Skinnemoen <haavard.skinnemoen@...el.com> wrote:

> The tasklet checks RAW.BLOCK twice, and does not check RAW.XFER. This is
> obviously wrong, and could theoretically cause the driver to hang.
> 
> Reported-by: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@...el.com>
> Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <haavard.skinnemoen@...el.com>
> ---
>  drivers/dma/dw_dmac.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/dma/dw_dmac.c b/drivers/dma/dw_dmac.c
> index 94df917..0778d99 100644
> --- a/drivers/dma/dw_dmac.c
> +++ b/drivers/dma/dw_dmac.c
> @@ -364,7 +364,7 @@ static void dw_dma_tasklet(unsigned long data)
>  	int i;
>  
>  	status_block = dma_readl(dw, RAW.BLOCK);
> -	status_xfer = dma_readl(dw, RAW.BLOCK);
> +	status_xfer = dma_readl(dw, RAW.XFER);
>  	status_err = dma_readl(dw, RAW.ERROR);
>  
>  	dev_vdbg(dw->dma.dev, "tasklet: status_block=%x status_err=%x\n",

We haven't heard from Dan for a week and this still wasn't in his tree
yesterday.

I think I'll cheerily send it in to Linus for 2.6.27.
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