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SubjectRe: [1/2] carl9170: Fix wrong completion usage
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Daniel Wagner <wagi@monom.org> wrote:
> From: Daniel Wagner <daniel.wagner@bmw-carit.de>
>
> carl9170_usb_stop() is used from several places to flush and cleanup any
> pending work. The normal pattern is to send a request and wait for the
> irq handler to call complete(). The completion is not reinitialized
> during normal operation and as the old comment indicates it is important
> to keep calls to wait_for_completion_timeout() and complete() balanced.
>
> Calling complete_all() brings this equilibirum out of balance and needs
> to be fixed by a reinit_completion(). But that opens a small race
> window. It is possible that the sequence of complete_all(),
> reinit_completion() is faster than the wait_for_completion_timeout() can
> do its work. The wake up is not lost but the done counter test is after
> reinit_completion() has been executed. The only reason we don't see
> carl9170_exec_cmd() hang forever is we use the timeout version of
> wait_for_copletion().
>
> Let's fix this by reinitializing the completion (that is just setting
> done counter to 0) just before we send out an request. Now,
> carl9170_usb_stop() can be sure a complete() call is enough to make
> progess since there is only one waiter at max. This is a common pattern
> also seen in various drivers which use completion.
>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Wagner <daniel.wagner@bmw-carit.de>

Thanks, 1 patch applied to ath-next branch of ath.git:

78a9e170388b carl9170: Fix wrong completion usage

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