On 10.05.2013 21:39, Sakari Ailus wrote:
Hi Soeren,

Thanks for the patch!

On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 11:03:42AM +0200, Soeren Moch wrote:
In dvb_ringbuffer lock-less synchronizationof reader and writer threads is done
with separateread and write pointers. Since dvb_ringbuffer_flush() modifies the
read pointer, this function must not be called from the writer thread.

This patch removes the dvb_ringbuffer_flush() calls in the dmxdev ringbuffer
write functions, this fixes Oopses "Unable to handle kernel paging request"
I could observe for the call chain dvb_demux_read ->dvb_dmxdev_buffer_read ->
dvb_ringbuffer_read_user -> __copy_to_user (the reader side of the ringbuffer).

The flush calls at the write side are not necessary anyway since 
ringbuffer_flush
is also called in dvb_dmxdev_buffer_read() when an error condition is set in the
ringbuffer.

This patch should also be applied to stable kernels.

Signed-off-by: Soeren Moch <sm...@web.de>
CC: <sta...@vger.kernel.org>
While the change the patch does itself appears sound to me, I need to ask
you to resend the patch using git send-email (it won't apply as-is). I can
do that this time, too; let me know what works for you.
Please convert this patch to git format, thank you!

Reviewed-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ai...@iki.fi>
And thanks for your rewiew, too.

  Soeren

--- a/drivers/media/dvb-core/dmxdev.c   2013-04-05 21:21:15.000000000 +0200
+++ b/drivers/media/dvb-core/dmxdev.c   2013-04-14 09:01:58.000000000 +0200
@@ -377,10 +377,8 @@ static int dvb_dmxdev_section_callback(c
                ret = dvb_dmxdev_buffer_write(&dmxdevfilter->buffer, buffer2,
                                              buffer2_len);
        }
-       if (ret < 0) {
-               dvb_ringbuffer_flush(&dmxdevfilter->buffer);
+       if (ret < 0)
                dmxdevfilter->buffer.error = ret;
-       }
        if (dmxdevfilter->params.sec.flags & DMX_ONESHOT)
                dmxdevfilter->state = DMXDEV_STATE_DONE;
        spin_unlock(&dmxdevfilter->dev->lock);
@@ -416,10 +414,8 @@ static int dvb_dmxdev_ts_callback(const
        ret = dvb_dmxdev_buffer_write(buffer, buffer1, buffer1_len);
        if (ret == buffer1_len)
                ret = dvb_dmxdev_buffer_write(buffer, buffer2, buffer2_len);
-       if (ret < 0) {
-               dvb_ringbuffer_flush(buffer);
+       if (ret < 0)
                buffer->error = ret;
-       }
        spin_unlock(&dmxdevfilter->dev->lock);
        wake_up(&buffer->queue);
        return 0;


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