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Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/3] media: cedrus: Fix watchdog race condition
Date:   Thu, 25 Aug 2022 23:02:36 +0200
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Dne =C4=8Detrtek, 18. avgust 2022 ob 22:33:06 CEST je Nicolas Dufresne napi=
sal(a):
> The watchdog needs to be schedule before we trigger the decode
> operation, otherwise there is a risk that the decoder IRQ will be
> called before we have schedule the watchdog. As a side effect, the
> watchdog would never be cancelled and its function would be called
> at an inappropriate time.
>=20
> This was observed while running Fluster with GStreamer as a backend.
> Some programming error would cause the decoder IRQ to be call very
> quickly after the trigger. Later calls into the driver would deadlock
> due to the unbalanced state.
>=20
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Fixes: 7c38a551bda1 ("media: cedrus: Add watchdog for job completion")
> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dufresne <nicolas.dufresne@collabora.com>

Reviewed-by: Jernej Skrabec <jernej.skrabec@gmail.com>

Best regards,
Jernej

> ---
>  drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/cedrus_dec.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>=20
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/cedrus_dec.c
> b/drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/cedrus_dec.c index
> 3b6aa78a2985f..e7f7602a5ab40 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/cedrus_dec.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/cedrus_dec.c
> @@ -106,11 +106,11 @@ void cedrus_device_run(void *priv)
>=20
>  	/* Trigger decoding if setup went well, bail out otherwise. */
>  	if (!error) {
> -		dev->dec_ops[ctx->current_codec]->trigger(ctx);
> -
>  		/* Start the watchdog timer. */
>  		schedule_delayed_work(&dev->watchdog_work,
>  				      msecs_to_jiffies(2000));
> +
> +		dev->dec_ops[ctx->current_codec]->trigger(ctx);
>  	} else {
>  		v4l2_m2m_buf_done_and_job_finish(ctx->dev->m2m_dev,
>  						 ctx-
>fh.m2m_ctx,
> --
> 2.37.2