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Commit 2a24bb28 authored by Jon Hunter's avatar Jon Hunter Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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serial: tegra: Handle another RX race condition

Commit 853a6997 ("serial: tegra: handle race condition on uart rx
side") attempted to fix a race condition between the RX end of
transmission interrupt and RX DMA completion callback. Despite this
fix there is still another case where these two paths can race and
result in duplicated data. The race condition is as follows:

1. DMA completion interrupt occurs and schedules tasklet to call DMA
   callback.
2. DMA callback for the UART driver starts to execute. This will copy
   the data from the DMA buffer and restart the DMA. This is done under
   uart port spinlock.
3. During the callback, UART interrupt is raised for end of receive. The
   UART ISR runs and waits to acquire port spinlock held by the DMA
   callback.
4. DMA callback gives up spinlock after copying the data, but before
   restarting DMA.
5. UART ISR acquires the spin lock and reads the same DMA buffer because
   DMA has not been restarted yet.

The release of the spinlock during the DMA callback was introduced by
commit 9b88748b ("tty: serial: tegra: drop uart_port->lock before
calling tty_flip_buffer_push()") to fix a spinlock lock-up issue when
calling tty_flip_buffer_push(). However, since then commit a9c3f68f


("tty: Fix low_latency BUG") migrated tty_flip_buffer_push() to always
use a workqueue, allowing tty_flip_buffer_push() to be called from
within atomic sections. Therefore, we can remove the unlocking of the
spinlock from the DMA callback and UART ISR and this will ensure that
the race condition no longer occurs.

Reported-by: default avatarChristopher Freeman <cfreeman@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJon Hunter <jonathanh@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent 0abcc6df
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