On 05. 03. 24, 2:49, Douglas Anderson wrote:
This reverts commit 5c7e105cd156fc9adf5294a83623d7a40c15f9b9.
As identified by KASAN, the simplification done by the cleanup patch
was not legal.
Ugh, indeed. uart_xmit_advance() is nice but completely hid the detail
you describe below.
My bad, so for now definitely:
Acked-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@xxxxxxxxxx>
From tracing through the code, it can be seen that we're transmitting
from a 4096-byte circular buffer. We copy anywhere from 1-4 bytes from
it each time. The simplification runs into trouble when we get near
the end of the circular buffer. For instance, we might start out with
xmit->tail = 4094 and we want to transfer 4 bytes. With the code
before simplification this was no problem. We'd read buf[4094],
buf[4095], buf[0], and buf[1]. With the new code we'll do a
memcpy(&buf[4094], 4) which reads 2 bytes past the end of the buffer
and then skips transmitting what's at buf[0] and buf[1].
KASAN isn't 100% consistent at reporting this for me, but to be extra
confident in the analysis, I added traces of the tail and tx_bytes and
then wrote a test program:
while true; do
echo -n "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0" > /dev/ttyMSM0
sleep .1
done
I watched the traces over SSH and saw:
qcom_geni_serial_send_chunk_fifo: 4093 4
qcom_geni_serial_send_chunk_fifo: 1 3
Which indicated that one byte should be missing. Sure enough the
output that should have been:
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0
In one case was actually missing a byte:
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwyz0
Running "ls -al" on large directories also made the missing bytes
obvious since columns didn't line up.
While the original code may not be the most elegant, we only talking
about copying up to 4 bytes here. Let's just go back to the code that
worked.
Fixes: 5c7e105cd156 ("tty: serial: simplify qcom_geni_serial_send_chunk_fifo()")
Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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If folks really want me to, I can adjust the patch to try to detect if
the circular buffer is going to wrap and still use the memcpy(). Let
me know.
I will remove the for loop anyway (this was sort of preparation), once I
switch serial to kfifo (soon). No need to think about this more. Just
revert and be done with it for now. kfifo takes care of all this
internally (and correctly).
thanks,
--
js
suse labs
