Re: [PATCH 3.10 219/268] tty/serial: atmel: fix race condition (TX+DMA)

Richard Genoud
2017-06-20T07:04:26Z

Hi Willy,

You can drop this patch.

There's nothing to fix on 3.10.x since the DMA TX support has been
introduced in 3.12.

Thanks !

2017-06-19 20:31 GMT+02:00 Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>:
> From: Richard Genoud <richard.genoud@gmail.com>
>
> commit 31ca2c63fdc0aee725cbd4f207c1256f5deaabde upstream.
>
> If uart_flush_buffer() is called between atmel_tx_dma() and
> atmel_complete_tx_dma(), the circular buffer has been cleared, but not
> atmel_port->tx_len.
> That leads to a circular buffer overflow (dumping (UART_XMIT_SIZE -
> atmel_port->tx_len) bytes).
>
> Tested-by: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@microchip.com>
> [rg] backport to 3.12
> Signed-off-by: Richard Genoud <richard.genoud@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
> ---
> drivers/tty/serial/atmel_serial.c | 5 +++++
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/atmel_serial.c b/drivers/tty/serial/atmel_serial.c
> index 82127ac..41d1df5 100644
> --- a/drivers/tty/serial/atmel_serial.c
> +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/atmel_serial.c
> @@ -1090,6 +1090,11 @@ static void atmel_flush_buffer(struct uart_port *port)
> UART_PUT_TCR(port, 0);
> atmel_port->pdc_tx.ofs = 0;
> }
> + /*
> + * in uart_flush_buffer(), the xmit circular buffer has just
> + * been cleared, so we have to reset its length accordingly.
> + */
> + sg_dma_len(&atmel_port->sg_tx) = 0;
> }
>
> /*
> --
> 2.8.0.rc2.1.gbe9624a
>