This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
USB: serial: fix race in generic write
to my usb git tree which can be found at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb.git
in the usb-linus branch.
The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree
(usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.)
The patch will hopefully also be merged in Linus's tree for the
next -rc kernel release.
If you have any questions about this process, please let me know.
>From 6f6485463aada1ec6a0f3db6a03eb8e393d6bb55 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Johan Hovold <jhovold@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2013 12:38:09 +0100
Subject: USB: serial: fix race in generic write
Fix race in generic write implementation, which could lead to
temporarily degraded throughput.
The current generic write implementation introduced by commit
27c7acf22047 ("USB: serial: reimplement generic fifo-based writes") has
always had this bug, although it's fairly hard to trigger and the
consequences are not likely to be noticed.
Specifically, a write() on one CPU while the completion handler is
running on another could result in only one of the two write urbs being
utilised to empty the remainder of the write fifo (unless there is a
second write() that doesn't race during that time).
Cc: stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # 2.6.35
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <jhovold@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/usb/serial/generic.c | 10 +---------
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/usb/serial/generic.c b/drivers/usb/serial/generic.c
index 2b01ec86..e36b25a2 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/serial/generic.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/serial/generic.c
@@ -173,16 +173,8 @@ retry:
clear_bit_unlock(USB_SERIAL_WRITE_BUSY, &port->flags);
return result;
}
- /*
- * Try sending off another urb, unless called from completion handler
- * (in which case there will be no free urb or no data).
- */
- if (mem_flags != GFP_ATOMIC)
- goto retry;
- clear_bit_unlock(USB_SERIAL_WRITE_BUSY, &port->flags);
-
- return 0;
+ goto retry; /* try sending off another urb */
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(usb_serial_generic_write_start);
--
1.8.4.3.gca3854a
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