Back in 2020 Guenter published a set of patches to fix some race conditions in UVC: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20200917022547.198090-5-linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx/ That kind of race conditions are not only seen in UVC, but are a common seen in almost all the kernel, so this is what it was decided back then that we should try to fix them at higher levels. After that. A lot of video_is_registered() were added to the core: ``` ribalda@alco:~/work/linux$ git grep is_registered drivers/media/v4l2-core/ drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-compat-ioctl32.c: if (!video_is_registered(vdev)) drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-dev.c: if (video_is_registered(vdev)) drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-dev.c: if (video_is_registered(vdev)) drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-dev.c: if (video_is_registered(vdev)) { drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-dev.c: if (video_is_registered(vdev)) drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-dev.c: if (!video_is_registered(vdev)) drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-dev.c: if (video_is_registered(vdev)) drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-dev.c: if (vdev == NULL || !video_is_registered(vdev)) { drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-dev.c: if (video_is_registered(vdev)) drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-dev.c: if (!vdev || !video_is_registered(vdev)) drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-ioctl.c: if (!video_is_registered(vfd)) { drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-subdev.c: if (video_is_registered(vdev)) { ``` And recently Sakari is trying to land: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-media/20230201214535.347075-1-sakari.ailus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ Which will make obsolete a lot off (all?) of the video_is_registered() checks in Guenter's patches. Besides those checks, there were some other valid races fixed in his patches. This patchset tries to fix the races still present in our code. Thanks! Signed-off-by: Ricardo Ribalda <ribalda@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Changes in v4: Thanks Sergey and Guenter - Fix typos - Move location of mutex_init - Split patch to make the suspend change explicit - Link to v3: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240325-guenter-mini-v3-0-c4bc61d84e03@xxxxxxxxxxxx Changes in v3: Thanks Hans! - Stop streaming during uvc_unregister() - Refactor the uvc_status code - Link to v2: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230309-guenter-mini-v2-0-e6410d590d43@xxxxxxxxxxxx Changes in v2: - Actually send the series to the ML an not only to individuals. - Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230309-guenter-mini-v1-0-627d10cf6e96@xxxxxxxxxxxx --- Ricardo Ribalda (4): media: uvcvideo: stop stream during unregister media: uvcvideo: Refactor the status irq API media: uvcvideo: Avoid race condition during unregister media: uvcvideo: Exit early if there is not int_urb drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_driver.c | 24 ++++++++------- drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_status.c | 62 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--- drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_v4l2.c | 22 ++++---------- drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvcvideo.h | 10 +++--- 4 files changed, 83 insertions(+), 35 deletions(-) --- base-commit: b14257abe7057def6127f6fb2f14f9adc8acabdb change-id: 20230309-guenter-mini-89861b084ef1 Best regards, -- Ricardo Ribalda <ribalda@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
