From: "John M. King" <jmking1@uiuc.edu>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Possible race in sound/oss/forte.c ?
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 12:04:34 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <42FB8522.7080605@uiuc.edu> (raw)
I know the OSS drivers are deprecated, but I'm trying to figure this out
for my own understanding.
Here's code from sound/oss/forte.c, in the write system call handler. A
test has already been performed (under the protection of the lock) and
the driver has decided to sleep.
add_wait_queue (&channel->wait, &wait);
for (;;) {
spin_unlock_irqrestore (&chip->lock, flags);
set_current_state (TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
schedule();
spin_lock_irqsave (&chip->lock, flags);
if (channel->frag_num - channel->filled_frags)
break;
}
remove_wait_queue (&channel->wait, &wait);
set_current_state (TASK_RUNNING);
The driver's interrupt handler calls wake_up_all(). What if an
interrupt occurs just after the spin_unlock_irqrestore() but before
setting TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE (and the interrupt handler does stuff that
causes the tested conditional to be true as well)? The interrupt calls
wake_up_all(), but then when control returns here, the process will mark
itself TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE right away and sleep, effectively missing the
wake_up_all().
Is this a race condition? If not, can someone point out the error(s) in
my reasoning? Please CC me as I'm not subscribed to the list.
Thanks,
John
next reply other threads:[~2005-08-11 17:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-11 17:04 John M. King [this message]
2005-08-11 21:31 ` Possible race in sound/oss/forte.c ? Nish Aravamudan
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