This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
serial: pl011: Fix DMA ->flush_buffer()
to my tty git tree which can be found at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty.git
in the tty-testing 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 be merged to the tty-next branch sometime soon,
after it passes testing, and the merge window is open.
If you have any questions about this process, please let me know.
>From f6a196477184b99a31d16366a8e826558aa11f6d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vincent Whitchurch <vincent.whitchurch@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2019 10:25:47 +0100
Subject: serial: pl011: Fix DMA ->flush_buffer()
PL011's ->flush_buffer() implementation releases and reacquires the port
lock. Due to a race condition here, data can end up being added to the
circular buffer but neither being discarded nor being sent out. This
leads to, for example, tcdrain(2) waiting indefinitely.
Process A Process B
uart_flush_buffer()
- acquire lock
- circ_clear
- pl011_flush_buffer()
-- release lock
-- dmaengine_terminate_all()
uart_write()
- acquire lock
- add chars to circ buffer
- start_tx()
-- start DMA
- release lock
-- acquire lock
-- turn off DMA
-- release lock
// Data in circ buffer but DMA is off
According to the comment in the code, the releasing of the lock around
dmaengine_terminate_all() is to avoid a deadlock with the DMA engine
callback. However, since the time this code was written, the DMA engine
API documentation seems to have been clarified to say that
dmaengine_terminate_all() (in the identically implemented but
differently named dmaengine_terminate_async() variant) does not wait for
any running complete callback to be completed and can even be called
from a complete callback. So there is no possibility of deadlock if the
DMA engine driver implements this API correctly.
So we should be able to just remove this release and reacquire of the
lock to prevent the aforementioned race condition.
Signed-off-by: Vincent Whitchurch <vincent.whitchurch@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191118092547.32135-1-vincent.whitchurch@xxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/tty/serial/amba-pl011.c | 6 ++----
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/amba-pl011.c b/drivers/tty/serial/amba-pl011.c
index 38e2d25f7e23..4b28134d596a 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/amba-pl011.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/amba-pl011.c
@@ -813,10 +813,8 @@ __acquires(&uap->port.lock)
if (!uap->using_tx_dma)
return;
- /* Avoid deadlock with the DMA engine callback */
- spin_unlock(&uap->port.lock);
- dmaengine_terminate_all(uap->dmatx.chan);
- spin_lock(&uap->port.lock);
+ dmaengine_terminate_async(uap->dmatx.chan);
+
if (uap->dmatx.queued) {
dma_unmap_sg(uap->dmatx.chan->device->dev, &uap->dmatx.sg, 1,
DMA_TO_DEVICE);
--
2.24.0
