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From: Tzung-Bi Shih <tzungbi@kernel.org>
To: Patryk Duda <patrykd@google.com>
Cc: Guenter Roeck <groeck@chromium.org>,
	Benson Leung <bleung@chromium.org>,
	chrome-platform@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] platform/chrome: cros_ec_proto: Lock device when updating MKBP version
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2024 03:47:42 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZqcQ3rjY6Wu4lU6t@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240725175714.1769080-1-patrykd@google.com>

On Thu, Jul 25, 2024 at 05:57:13PM +0000, Patryk Duda wrote:
> The cros_ec_get_host_command_version_mask() function requires that the
> caller must have ec_dev->lock mutex before calling it. This requirement
> was not met and as a result it was possible that two commands were sent
> to the device at the same time.

To clarify:
- What would happen if multiple cros_ec_get_host_command_version_mask() calls
  at the same time?
- What are the callees?  I'm trying to understand the source of parallelism.

Also, the patch also needs an unlock at [1].

[1]: https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.10/source/drivers/platform/chrome/cros_ec_proto.c#L819

> The problem was observed while using UART backend which doesn't use any
> additional locks, unlike SPI backend which locks the controller until
> response is received.

Is it a general issue if multiple commands send to EC at a time?  If yes, it
should serialize that in the UART transportation.

  reply	other threads:[~2024-07-29  3:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-07-25 17:57 [PATCH] platform/chrome: cros_ec_proto: Lock device when updating MKBP version Patryk Duda
2024-07-29  3:47 ` Tzung-Bi Shih [this message]
2024-07-29 11:57   ` Patryk Duda
2024-07-30  6:04     ` Tzung-Bi Shih
2024-07-30  8:05       ` Patryk Duda
2024-07-30 10:14         ` Tzung-Bi Shih
2024-07-30 10:55           ` Patryk Duda

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