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    serial: tegra: Handle another RX race condition · 2a24bb28
    Jon Hunter authored
    Commit 853a6997 ("serial: tegra: handle race condition on uart rx
    side") attempted to fix a race condition between the RX end of
    transmission interrupt and RX DMA completion callback. Despite this
    fix there is still another case where these two paths can race and
    result in duplicated data. The race condition is as follows:
    
    1. DMA completion interrupt occurs and schedules tasklet to call DMA
       callback.
    2. DMA callback for the UART driver starts to execute. This will copy
       the data from the DMA buffer and restart the DMA. This is done under
       uart port spinlock.
    3. During the callback, UART interrupt is raised for end of receive. The
       UART ISR runs and waits to acquire port spinlock held by the DMA
       callback.
    4. DMA callback gives up spinlock after copying the data, but before
       restarting DMA.
    5. UART ISR acquires the spin lock and reads the same DMA buffer because
       DMA has not been restarted yet.
    
    The release of the spinlock during the DMA callback was introduced by
    commit 9b88748b ("tty: serial: tegra: drop uart_port->lock before
    calling tty_flip_buffer_push()") to fix a spinlock lock-up issue when
    calling tty_flip_buffer_push(). However, since then commit a9c3f68f
    ("tty: Fix low_latency BUG") migrated tty_flip_buffer_push() to always
    use a workqueue, allowing tty_flip_buffer_push() to be called from
    within atomic sections. Therefore, we can remove the unlocking of the
    spinlock from the DMA callback and UART ISR and this will ensure that
    the race condition no longer occurs.
    Reported-by: default avatarChristopher Freeman <cfreeman@nvidia.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJon Hunter <jonathanh@nvidia.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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