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authorYoshii Takashi <takashi.yoshii.zj@renesas.com>2012-03-14 16:14:43 +0900
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2012-04-02 09:53:10 -0700
commit46979bfe3c1c2435f7f8190ff0c0994de3cfc471 (patch)
tree9a7aa361fe4dd843cc8a2c91b790b2053c57cd98
parentb43188de0cd27787a75c79856e72c649d4ee9035 (diff)
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serial: sh-sci: fix a race of DMA submit_tx on transfer
commit 49d4bcaddca977fffdea8b0b71f6e5da96dac78e upstream. When DMA is enabled, sh-sci transfer begins with uart_start() sci_start_tx() if (cookie_tx < 0) schedule_work() Then, starts DMA when wq scheduled, -- (A) process_one_work() work_fn_rx() cookie_tx = desc->submit_tx() And finishes when DMA transfer ends, -- (B) sci_dma_tx_complete() async_tx_ack() cookie_tx = -EINVAL (possible another schedule_work()) This A to B sequence is not reentrant, since controlling variables (for example, cookie_tx above) are not queues nor lists. So, they must be invoked as A B A B..., otherwise results in kernel crash. To ensure the sequence, sci_start_tx() seems to test if cookie_tx < 0 (represents "not used") to call schedule_work(). But cookie_tx will not be set (to a cookie, also means "used") until in the middle of work queue scheduled function work_fn_tx(). This gap between the test and set allows the breakage of the sequence under the very frequently call of uart_start(). Another gap between async_tx_ack() and another schedule_work() results in the same issue, too. This patch introduces a new condition "cookie_tx == 0" just to mark it is "busy" and assign it within spin-locked region to fill the gaps. Signed-off-by: Takashi Yoshii <takashi.yoshii.zj@renesas.com> Reviewed-by: Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
-rw-r--r--drivers/tty/serial/sh-sci.c15
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/sh-sci.c b/drivers/tty/serial/sh-sci.c
index aff9d612dff0..829e51a20eee 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/sh-sci.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/sh-sci.c
@@ -1123,17 +1123,20 @@ static void sci_dma_tx_complete(void *arg)
port->icount.tx += sg_dma_len(&s->sg_tx);
async_tx_ack(s->desc_tx);
- s->cookie_tx = -EINVAL;
s->desc_tx = NULL;
if (uart_circ_chars_pending(xmit) < WAKEUP_CHARS)
uart_write_wakeup(port);
if (!uart_circ_empty(xmit)) {
+ s->cookie_tx = 0;
schedule_work(&s->work_tx);
- } else if (port->type == PORT_SCIFA || port->type == PORT_SCIFB) {
- u16 ctrl = sci_in(port, SCSCR);
- sci_out(port, SCSCR, ctrl & ~SCSCR_TIE);
+ } else {
+ s->cookie_tx = -EINVAL;
+ if (port->type == PORT_SCIFA || port->type == PORT_SCIFB) {
+ u16 ctrl = sci_in(port, SCSCR);
+ sci_out(port, SCSCR, ctrl & ~SCSCR_TIE);
+ }
}
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&port->lock, flags);
@@ -1395,8 +1398,10 @@ static void sci_start_tx(struct uart_port *port)
}
if (s->chan_tx && !uart_circ_empty(&s->port.state->xmit) &&
- s->cookie_tx < 0)
+ s->cookie_tx < 0) {
+ s->cookie_tx = 0;
schedule_work(&s->work_tx);
+ }
#endif
if (!s->chan_tx || port->type == PORT_SCIFA || port->type == PORT_SCIFB) {