[PATCH AUTOSEL 4.14 013/167] leds: avoid races with workqueue

Sasha Levin
2019-05-22T19:41:24Z

From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>

[ Upstream commit 0db37915d912e8dc6588f25da76d3ed36718d92f ]

There are races between "main" thread and workqueue. They manifest
themselves on Thinkpad X60:

This should result in LED blinking, but it turns it off instead:

root@amd:/data/pavel# cd /sys/class/leds/tpacpi\:\:power
root@amd:/sys/class/leds/tpacpi::power# echo timer > trigger
root@amd:/sys/class/leds/tpacpi::power# echo timer > trigger

It should be possible to transition from blinking to solid on by echo
0 > brightness; echo 1 > brightness... but that does not work, either,
if done too quickly.

Synchronization of the workqueue fixes both.

Fixes: 1afcadfcd184 ("leds: core: Use set_brightness_work for the blocking op")
Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jacek Anaszewski <jacek.anaszewski@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
drivers/leds/led-class.c | 1 +
drivers/leds/led-core.c | 5 +++++
2 files changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/leds/led-class.c b/drivers/leds/led-class.c
index b0e2d55acbd6f..80374c6c943ad 100644
--- a/drivers/leds/led-class.c
+++ b/drivers/leds/led-class.c
@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@ static ssize_t brightness_store(struct device *dev,
if (state == LED_OFF)
led_trigger_remove(led_cdev);
led_set_brightness(led_cdev, state);
+ flush_work(&led_cdev->set_brightness_work);

ret = size;
unlock:
diff --git a/drivers/leds/led-core.c b/drivers/leds/led-core.c
index 9ce6b32f52a19..cb84c35d64f97 100644
--- a/drivers/leds/led-core.c
+++ b/drivers/leds/led-core.c
@@ -162,6 +162,11 @@ static void led_blink_setup(struct led_classdev *led_cdev,
unsigned long *delay_on,
unsigned long *delay_off)
{
+ /*
+ * If "set brightness to 0" is pending in workqueue, we don't
+ * want that to be reordered after blink_set()
+ */
+ flush_work(&led_cdev->set_brightness_work);
if (!test_bit(LED_BLINK_ONESHOT, &led_cdev->work_flags) &&
led_cdev->blink_set &&
!led_cdev->blink_set(led_cdev, delay_on, delay_off))
--
2.20.1