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From: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
To: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Paul Elder <paul.elder@pitt.edu>,
	linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, Roger Quadros <rogerq@ti.com>,
	Felipe Balbi <balbi@kernel.org>
Subject: [2/4] usb: gadget: composite: add function to increment delayed_status
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2018 14:00:05 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2658992.BJfkddU6Jz@avalon> (raw)

Hi Alan,

On Friday, 20 April 2018 17:09:57 EEST Alan Stern wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Apr 2018, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> > According to include/linux/usb/composite.h, the delayed_status field
> > should be protected by cdev->lock, which you should use here.
> > 
> > I've read through the code and found out that, while all callers of
> > reset_config(), as well as usb_composite_setup_continue(), correctly take
> > the lock, it isn't taken around f->set_alt() in composite_setup(). This
> > causes the race condition. I wonder if a simpler fix wouldn't be to take
> > the lock before calling f->set_alt() and releasing it after incrementing
> > delayed_status. I am however worried that this could lead to deadlocks if
> > one of the existing set_alt() handlers calls a function that takes the
> > same lock. Another worry is that some of the .set_alt() handlers might
> > not expect to be called with interrupts disabled. This should be
> > analyzed, and I hope that Roger and/or Felipe will have some insight on
> > this.
> 
> set_alt handlers generally have to disable and enable endpoints, which
> requires a process context.  They cannot run with interrupts disabled.

Thank you for the information. Isn't the following code path problematic then 
?

int
composite_setup(struct usb_gadget *gadget, const struct usb_ctrlrequest *ctrl)
{
	...
	case USB_REQ_SET_CONFIGURATION:
	...
		spin_lock(&cdev->lock);
		value = set_config(cdev, ctrl, w_value);
		spin_unlock(&cdev->lock);
	...
}

static int set_config(struct usb_composite_dev *cdev,
                const struct usb_ctrlrequest *ctrl, unsigned number)
{
	...
	/* Initialize all interfaces by setting them to altsetting zero. */
	for (tmp = 0; tmp < MAX_CONFIG_INTERFACES; tmp++) {
	...
		result = f->set_alt(f, tmp, 0);
	...
}

             reply	other threads:[~2018-04-21 11:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-04-21 11:00 Laurent Pinchart [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2018-04-21 15:38 [2/4] usb: gadget: composite: add function to increment delayed_status Alan Stern
2018-04-20 14:51 Roger Quadros
2018-04-20 14:09 Alan Stern
2018-04-19 19:42 Laurent Pinchart
2018-04-18  3:18 Paul Elder

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