ohci-hcd: Fix race condition caused by ohci_urb_enqueue() and io_watchdog_func()
Running io_watchdog_func() while ohci_urb_enqueue() is running can cause a race condition where ohci->prev_frame_no is corrupted and the watchdog can mis-detect following error: ohci-platform 664a0800.usb: frame counter not updating; disabled ohci-platform 664a0800.usb: HC died; cleaning up Specifically, following scenario causes a race condition: 1. ohci_urb_enqueue() calls spin_lock_irqsave(&ohci->lock, flags) and enters the critical section 2. ohci_urb_enqueue() calls timer_pending(&ohci->io_watchdog) and it returns false 3. ohci_urb_enqueue() sets ohci->prev_frame_no to a frame number read by ohci_frame_no(ohci) 4. ohci_urb_enqueue() schedules io_watchdog_func() with mod_timer() 5. ohci_urb_enqueue() calls spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ohci->lock, flags) and exits the critical section 6. Later, ohci_urb_enqueue() is called 7. ohci_urb_enqueue() calls spin_lock_irqsave(&ohci->lock, flags) and enters the critical section 8. The timer scheduled on step 4 expires and io_watchdog_func() runs 9. io_watchdog_func() calls spin_lock_irqsave(&ohci->lock, flags) and waits on it because ohci_urb_enqueue() is already in the critical section on step 7 10. ohci_urb_enqueue() calls timer_pending(&ohci->io_watchdog) and it returns false 11. ohci_urb_enqueue() sets ohci->prev_frame_no to new frame number read by ohci_frame_no(ohci) because the frame number proceeded between step 3 and 6 12. ohci_urb_enqueue() schedules io_watchdog_func() with mod_timer() 13. ohci_urb_enqueue() calls spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ohci->lock, flags) and exits the critical section, then wake up io_watchdog_func() which is waiting on step 9 14. io_watchdog_func() enters the critical section 15. io_watchdog_func() calls ohci_frame_no(ohci) and set frame_no variable to the frame number 16. io_watchdog_func() compares frame_no and ohci->prev_frame_no On step 16, because this calling of io_watchdog_func() is scheduled on step 4, the frame number set in ohci->prev_frame_no is expected to the number set on step 3. However, ohci->prev_frame_no is overwritten on step 11. Because step 16 is executed soon after step 11, the frame number might not proceed, so ohci->prev_frame_no must equals to frame_no. To address above scenario, this patch introduces a special sentinel value IO_WATCHDOG_OFF and set this value to ohci->prev_frame_no when the watchdog is not pending or running. When ohci_urb_enqueue() schedules the watchdog (step 4 and 12 above), it compares ohci->prev_frame_no to IO_WATCHDOG_OFF so that ohci->prev_frame_no is not overwritten while io_watchdog_func() is running. Signed-off-by: Shigeru Yoshida <Shigeru.Yoshida@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Haiqing Bai <Haiqing.Bai@windriver.com> Acked-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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