[PATCH v3 0/3] uvcvideo: Attempt N to land UVC race conditions fixes

Ricardo Ribalda
2024-03-25T16:31:35Z

Back in 2020 Guenter published a set of patches to fix some race
conditions on UVC:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20200917022547.198090-5-linux@roeck-us.net/

That kind of race conditions are not only seen on UVC, but are a common
sin on almost all the kernel, so this is what it was decided back then
that we should try to fix them at higher levels.

After that. A lot of video_is_registered() were added to the core:

```
ribalda@alco:~/work/linux$ git grep is_registered drivers/media/v4l2-core/
drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-compat-ioctl32.c: if (!video_is_registered(vdev))
drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-dev.c: if (video_is_registered(vdev))
drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-dev.c: if (video_is_registered(vdev))
drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-dev.c: if (video_is_registered(vdev)) {
drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-dev.c: if (video_is_registered(vdev))
drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-dev.c: if (!video_is_registered(vdev))
drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-dev.c: if (video_is_registered(vdev))
drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-dev.c: if (vdev == NULL || !video_is_registered(vdev)) {
drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-dev.c: if (video_is_registered(vdev))
drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-dev.c: if (!vdev || !video_is_registered(vdev))
drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-ioctl.c: if (!video_is_registered(vfd)) {
drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-subdev.c: if (video_is_registered(vdev)) {
```

And recently Sakari is trying to land:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-media/20230201214535.347075-1-sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com/

Which will make obsolete a lot off (all?) of the video_is_registered() checks on
Guenter's patches.

Besides those checks, there were some other valid races fixed on his
patches.

This patchset tries to fix the races still present in our code.

Thanks!

Signed-off-by: Ricardo Ribalda <ribalda@chromium.org>
---
Changes in v3: Thanks Hans!
- Stop streaming during uvc_unregister()
- Refactor the uvc_status code
- Link to v2: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230309-guenter-mini-v2-0-e6410d590d43@chromium.org

Changes in v2:
- Actually send the series to the ML an not only to individuals.
- Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230309-guenter-mini-v1-0-627d10cf6e96@chromium.org

---
Ricardo Ribalda (3):
media: uvcvideo: stop stream during unregister
media: uvcvideo: Refactor the status irq API
media: uvcvideo: Exit early if there is not int_urb

drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_driver.c | 24 ++++++++-------
drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_status.c | 62 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_v4l2.c | 22 ++++----------
drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvcvideo.h | 10 +++---
4 files changed, 83 insertions(+), 35 deletions(-)
---
base-commit: b14257abe7057def6127f6fb2f14f9adc8acabdb
change-id: 20230309-guenter-mini-89861b084ef1

Best regards,
--
Ricardo Ribalda <ribalda@chromium.org>