Hello Vinod, On 02.05.2020 14:32, Vinod Koul wrote: > Would it not be better to use list_del_init() where we delete it rather > than do the init here? >
It is not a problem of list element itself not being initialized. The problem is that during fault conditions (zynqmp_dma_reset) all elements are moved to free list. List head however is not reinitialized. In normal flow elements are removed by list_del and resubmitted to free list with zynqmp_dma_free_descriptor. static void zynqmp_dma_chan_desc_cleanup(struct zynqmp_dma_chan *chan) { ... list_for_each_entry_safe(desc, next, &chan->done_list, node) { ... list_del(&desc->node); ... zynqmp_dma_free_descriptor(chan, desc); } } The zynqmp_dma_free_descriptor does not delete elements from the list by itself. I am not he author of this driver so I fixed it by doing non intrusive changes. Anyways, I do not see how using list_del_init would fix the bug. Regards, Rafal