Re: [PATCH v2] platform/chrome: cros_ec_spi: Transfer messages at high priority

From: Matthias Kaehlcke
Date: Wed Apr 03 2019 - 14:30:14 EST


On Wed, Apr 03, 2019 at 11:17:27AM -0700, Doug Anderson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Apr 3, 2019 at 11:14 AM Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Each transfer has it's own work struct (allocated on the stack), hence
> > a) does not occur. b) is still true, but shouldn't be a problem on
> > its own.
>
> Actually, it could be much worse _because_ it's on the stack. The
> worker could write something back to the work after the work has been
> de-allocated. That's bad.

Sure, I said "not a problem on its own."
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The worker is owned by this driver and supposedly we know what we are
doing. Changing a member in the struct after calling complete() would
likely be a bug anyway (though not necessarily a fatal one).