linux-kernel - Re: pwc driver bugs

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Date:	Thu, 24 May 2012 21:10:08 +0200
From:	Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>
To:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
CC:	Udo van den Heuvel <udovdh@...all.nl>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: pwc driver bugs

Alan,

Thanks for adding me to the CC on this. Udo, I've
responded to your bugs in bugzilla.

Regards,

Hans


On 05/24/2012 05:56 PM, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Thu, 24 May 2012 17:03:49 +0200
> Udo van den Heuvel<udovdh@...all.nl>  wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I discovered some issues in the pwc driver for certain USB webcams.
>> I opened some bugs[1].
>> I do think both issues might be related and the crash issue is quite
>> serious.
>>
>> Please have a look, I can assist by testing any patches with fixes. (for
>> ~3.3.7)
>
> commit ceede9fa8939e40ad0ddb4ad1355f45c6f1d3478
>
> looks rather relevant here.
>
> commit ceede9fa8939e40ad0ddb4ad1355f45c6f1d3478
> Author: Hans de Goede<hdegoede@...hat.com>
> Date:   Wed May 9 04:43:12 2012 -0300
>
>      [media] pwc: Fix locking
>
>      My last locking rework for pwc mistakenly assumed that videbuf2 does
>      its own locking, but it does not! This patch fixes the missing
>      locking by moving over the the video_device lock, and introducing a
>      separate lock for the videobuf2_queue.
>
>      Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede<hdegoede@...hat.com>
>      Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab<mchehab@...hat.com>
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