linux-kernel - [PATCH] pch_uart: Fix DMA resource leak issue

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Date:	Fri, 11 Nov 2011 10:55:27 +0900
From:	Tomoya MORINAGA <tomoya.rohm@...il.com>
To:	Alan Cox <alan@...ux.intel.com>, gregkh@...e.de,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-serial@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	qi.wang@...el.com, yong.y.wang@...el.com, joel.clark@...el.com,
	kok.howg.ewe@...el.com, Tomoya MORINAGA <tomoya.rohm@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH] pch_uart: Fix DMA resource leak issue

Changing UART mode PIO->DMA->PIO->DMA like below, pch_uart driver can't get
DMA channel resource.

setserial /dev/ttyPCH0 ^low_latency
setserial /dev/ttyPCH0 low_latency

CAUSE:
Changing mode using setserial command, ".startup" function which gets DMA
channel is called before ".verify_port" function which sets
dma-flag(use_dma/use_dma_flag) as 1.

PIO->DMA
  .startup: Since dma-flag is 0, DMA channel is not requested.
  .verify_port: dma-flag is set as 1.
  .shutdown: N/A

DMA->PIO
  .startup: Since dma-flag is 1, DMA channel is requested.
  .verify_port: dma-flag is set as 0.
  .shutdown: Since dma-flag is 0, DMA channel is not released.

This means DMA channel resource leak occurs.
Next time, this driver can't get DMA channel resource forever.

MODIFICATION:
  Currently, when release DMA channel resource, this driver checks dma-flag.
  However, this specification occurs the above issue.
  This driver must check whether dma_request_channel is executed or not.
  The values are saved in private data variable "chan_tx/chan_tx".
  These variables mean if the value is NULL, DMA channel is not requested,
  if not NULL, DMA channel is requested.

This patch fixes the issue.

Signed-off-by: Tomoya MORINAGA <tomoya.rohm@...il.com>
---
 drivers/tty/serial/pch_uart.c |    4 ++--
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/pch_uart.c b/drivers/tty/serial/pch_uart.c
index 21febef..284fa48 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/pch_uart.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/pch_uart.c
@@ -628,6 +628,7 @@ static void pch_request_dma(struct uart_port *port)
 		dev_err(priv->port.dev, "%s:dma_request_channel FAILS(Rx)\n",
 			__func__);
 		dma_release_channel(priv->chan_tx);
+		priv->chan_tx = NULL;
 		return;
 	}

@@ -1215,8 +1216,7 @@ static void pch_uart_shutdown(struct uart_port *port)
 		dev_err(priv->port.dev,
 			"pch_uart_hal_set_fifo Failed(ret=%d)\n", ret);

-	if (priv->use_dma_flag)
-		pch_free_dma(port);
+	pch_free_dma(port);

 	free_irq(priv->port.irq, priv);
 }
-- 
1.7.4.4

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