Re: [PATCH v4 1/5] mfd: Add support for Intel LJCA device

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On 10.03.23 05:14, Ye, Xiang wrote:
Hi Oliver,

Hi,

sorry for the delayed answer.

Thanks for your review.
On Thu, Mar 09, 2023 at 01:53:28PM +0100, Oliver Neukum wrote:


On 09.03.23 08:10, Ye Xiang wrote:

+static int ljca_stub_write(struct ljca_stub *stub, u8 cmd, const void *obuf, unsigned int obuf_len,
+			   void *ibuf, unsigned int *ibuf_len, bool wait_ack, unsigned long timeout)

Why do you make ibuf_len a pointer?
Because ibuf_len is also used as output of this function here.
It stores the actual length of ibuf receive from LJCA device.

Yes, I understand that now, thank you for the explanation, yet
that is problematic, if we look at another issue. See further down:

+		ret = -ENODEV;
+		goto error_put;
+	}
+
+	mutex_lock(&dev->mutex);
+	stub->cur_cmd = cmd;
+	stub->ipacket.ibuf = ibuf;
+	stub->ipacket.ibuf_len = ibuf_len;

Here you store the pointer into the stub. Hence we must make sure
that the location it points to stays valid.

+	stub->acked = false;
+	ret = usb_bulk_msg(dev->udev, usb_sndbulkpipe(dev->udev, dev->out_ep), header, msg_len,
+			   &actual, LJCA_USB_WRITE_TIMEOUT_MS);
+	kfree(header);
+	if (ret) {
+		dev_err(&dev->intf->dev, "bridge write failed ret:%d\n", ret);
+		goto error_unlock;
+	}
+
+	if (actual != msg_len) {
+		dev_err(&dev->intf->dev, "bridge write length mismatch (%d vs %d)\n", msg_len,
+			actual);
+		ret = -EINVAL;
+		goto error_unlock;
+	}
+
+	if (wait_ack) {
+		ret = wait_event_timeout(dev->ack_wq, stub->acked, msecs_to_jiffies(timeout));
+		if (!ret) {
+			dev_err(&dev->intf->dev, "acked wait timeout\n");
+			ret = -ETIMEDOUT;

The function will return an error in the timeout case.
This may be a trivial observation but it becomes important.

If that triggers, you may have a pending URB.

I misspoke. Pending IO would have been correct.

You must kill it.
which URB? I guess what you mean is dev->in_urb?
But the in_urb should always be up to waiting for message from firmware,
even through this timeout happen.


Now let's look at ljca_mng_reset_handshake(). I am afraid I have to quote
its first part in full:

+static int ljca_mng_reset_handshake(struct ljca_stub *stub)
+{
+	struct ljca_mng_priv *priv;
+	__le32 reset_id;
+	__le32 reset_id_ret = 0;
+	unsigned int ilen = sizeof(__le32);

This is on the _stack_
Highly important !!!

+	int ret;
+
+	priv = ljca_priv(stub);
+	reset_id = cpu_to_le32(priv->reset_id++);
+	ret = ljca_stub_write(stub, LJCA_MNG_RESET_NOTIFY, &reset_id, sizeof(reset_id),
+			      &reset_id_ret, &ilen, true, LJCA_USB_WRITE_ACK_TIMEOUT_MS);

If we run into the timeout error case, ret will be -ETIMEDOUT.

+	if (ret)
+		return ret;

And thus here we return and free the stack _including_ "ilen", which we
still have a pointer to. That means if the operation concludes after
a timeout, we _will_ follow a rogue pointer.
A couple of functions have this race condition.


What happens to stub in the error case?
ljca_add_mfd_cell only failed when krealloc_array failing. When
ljca_add_mfd_cell fails, the related stub just be left alone here.

Maybe I should free the stub here when fails? what is your advice?

Yes, that is the cleanest solution.

+	}
+
+	return 0;
+}


+
+static void ljca_disconnect(struct usb_interface *intf)
+{
+	struct ljca_dev *dev = usb_get_intfdata(intf);
+
+	ljca_stop(dev);

What prevents restarting the device here?

Sorry, you are calling ljca_start() only in probe(9 and resume()
Your code is correct.

	Regards
		Oliver



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