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SubjectRe: [patch 1/4] firewire: fix race of bus reset with request transmission
I wrote:
> Contexts which access an instance of struct fw_transaction are:
> 1. the submitter, until it inserted the packet which is embedded in the
> transaction into the AT req DMA,
> 2. the AsReqTrContext tasklet when the request packet was acked by the
> responder node or transmission to the responder failed,
> 3. the AsRspRcvContext tasklet when it found a request which matched
> an incoming response,
> 4. the card->flush_timer when it picks up timed-out transactions to
> cancel them,
> 5. the bus reset tasklet when it cancels transactions (this access is
> eliminated by this patch),
> 6. a process which shuts down an fw_card (unregisters it from fw-core
> when the controller is unbound from fw-ohci) --- although in this
> case there shouldn't really be any transactions anymore because we
> wait until all card users finished their business with the card.
>
> All of these contexts run concurrently (except for the 6th, presumably).

PS: Actually the three tasklets (2nd, 3rd, 5th context) are all
scheduled on the same CPU, hence are serialized. Therefore

> The 5th looks safe against 2nd, 3rd [...] but is unsafe against 1st.

5th is serialized against 4th and 6th by lock protection of
card->transaction_list accesses.
--
Stefan Richter
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http://arcgraph.de/sr/



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