From: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.com>
To: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>,
Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
USB list <linux-usb@vger.kernel.org>,
syzbot <syzbot+854768b99f19e89d7f81@syzkaller.appspotmail.com>,
syzkaller-bugs <syzkaller-bugs@googlegroups.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] USB: cdc-wdm: Call wake_up_all() when clearing WDM_IN_USE bit.
Date: Sat, 30 May 2020 17:25:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1590852311.14886.3.camel@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200528205807.GB21709@rowland.harvard.edu>
Am Donnerstag, den 28.05.2020, 16:58 -0400 schrieb Alan Stern:
> On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 09:51:35PM +0200, Andrey Konovalov wrote:
> > > I don't understand what the problem is. Can you explain in more general
> > > terms -- nothing specific to wdm or anything like that -- what you are
> > > concerned about? Is this something that could happen to any gadget
> > > driver? Or any USB class device driver? Or does it only affect
> > > usespace components of raw-gadget drivers?
> >
> > So, AFAIU, we have a driver whose flush() callback blocks on
> > wait_event(), which can only terminate when either 1) the driver
> > receives a particular USB response from the device or 2) the device
> > disconnects.
>
> This sounds like a bug in the driver. What would it do if someone had a
Arguably yes. I will introduce a timeout. Unfortunately flush()
requires a non-interruptible sleep, as you cannot sanely return EAGAIN.
Regards
Oliver
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-30 15:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-20 23:31 [PATCH] USB: cdc-wdm: Call wake_up_all() when clearing WDM_IN_USE bit Tetsuo Handa
2020-05-21 7:33 ` Greg KH
2020-05-21 10:01 ` Tetsuo Handa
2020-05-21 19:50 ` Oliver Neukum
2020-05-21 22:48 ` Tetsuo Handa
2020-05-22 8:04 ` Oliver Neukum
2020-05-22 8:26 ` Tetsuo Handa
2020-05-25 12:06 ` Oliver Neukum
2020-05-25 13:32 ` Tetsuo Handa
2020-05-27 4:47 ` Tetsuo Handa
2020-05-28 15:18 ` Andrey Konovalov
2020-05-28 16:03 ` Tetsuo Handa
2020-05-28 19:03 ` Andrey Konovalov
2020-05-28 19:40 ` Alan Stern
2020-05-28 19:51 ` Andrey Konovalov
2020-05-28 20:58 ` Alan Stern
2020-05-29 20:41 ` Andrey Konovalov
2020-05-30 0:42 ` Tetsuo Handa
2020-05-30 1:10 ` Alan Stern
2020-05-30 4:58 ` Tetsuo Handa
2020-06-24 11:57 ` Oliver Neukum
2020-06-24 12:48 ` Tetsuo Handa
2020-05-30 6:08 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-06-01 12:26 ` Andrey Konovalov
2020-05-30 15:25 ` Oliver Neukum [this message]
2020-05-30 15:47 ` Alan Stern
2020-06-08 2:24 ` Tetsuo Handa
2020-06-18 0:48 ` Tetsuo Handa
2020-06-19 13:56 ` Andrey Konovalov
2020-06-23 11:20 ` Tetsuo Handa
2020-07-02 5:44 ` Tetsuo Handa
2020-07-02 7:24 ` Oliver Neukum
2020-07-15 6:15 ` Tetsuo Handa
2020-08-10 10:47 ` Tetsuo Handa
2020-09-24 15:09 ` [PATCH] USB: cdc-wdm: Make wdm_flush() interruptible and add wdm_fsync() Tetsuo Handa
2020-09-28 14:17 ` [PATCH (repost)] " Tetsuo Handa
2020-06-25 9:56 ` [PATCH] USB: cdc-wdm: Call wake_up_all() when clearing WDM_IN_USE bit Oliver Neukum
2020-06-25 11:15 ` Tetsuo Handa
2020-07-01 7:08 ` [TEST]Re: " Oliver Neukum
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