linux-kernel - Re: Broken locking in leds-lp5523.c

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Date:	Fri, 10 Jan 2014 00:08:08 +0100
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:	Bryan Wu <cooloney@...il.com>
Cc:	milo kim <milo.kim@...com>,
	"rpurdie@...ys.net" <rpurdie@...ys.net>,
	Linux LED Subsystem <linux-leds@...r.kernel.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@...il.com>,
	Sebastian Reichel <sre@...ian.org>,
	Sebastian Reichel <sre@...g0.de>
Subject: Re: Broken locking in leds-lp5523.c

Hi!

> > There's some locking weirdness, and few missing comments in lp5523
> > driver.
> >
> > Now, this is untested patch from my reverse-engineering. I hope I
> > understood things right...
> >
> > In particular, there's unbalanced unlock in
> > lp5523_update_program_memory, and lp5523_update_program_memory needs
> > to be protected by the lock.
> >
> > Comments? Does someone maintain this?
> 
> I think Milo Kim is maintaining this driver for the LP55xx chip
 > family.

Yes, he's on the Cc list. I was hoping he would comment.

> > -#define LP5523_PROGRAM_LENGTH          32
> > +#define LP5523_PROGRAM_LENGTH          32      /* bytes */
> > +/* Memory is used like this:
> > +   0x00 engine 1 program
> > +   0x10 engine 2 program
> > +   0x20 engine 3 program
> > +   0x30 engine 1 muxing info
> > +   0x40 engine 2 muxing info
> > +   0x50 engine 3 muxing info
> > +   ...and offsets are hard-coded all around :-( */

For example, I'd like to increase limit here -- 62 byte programs
should be feasible AFAICT.

> >  #define LP5523_MAX_LEDS                        9
> >
> >  /* Registers */
> > @@ -265,20 +273,25 @@ static int lp5523_init_program_engine(struct lp55xx_chip *chip)
> >         /* one pattern per engine setting LED MUX start and stop addresses */
> >         static const u8 pattern[][LP5523_PROGRAM_LENGTH] =  {
> >                 { 0x9c, 0x30, 0x9c, 0xb0, 0x9d, 0x80, 0xd8, 0x00, 0},
> > +               /* 9c30 -- mux_map_start(0x30)
> > +                  9cb0 -- mux_ld_end(0x50)
> > +                  9d80 -- mux_sel???(0x00)
> > +                  d800 -- invalid?? */

And it would be good to get comment on what this does. I could not
disassemble/decipher it.

Regards,
									Pavel
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